[thelarkinn]

> JS would be unusable for projects of this scope

Blanket statements don't really make great arguments. That aside, in my experience (webpack for one), projects at scale with JavaScript, are harder to maintain without some type safety and are a bit more bug prone and slower to refactor.

But at the end of the day, its still compiled to JavaScript, whether you chose to slap a .ts file in there, or just use the typechecker standalone is a mere implementation detail.