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Seconded. I don’t see anything bad with typescript itself, but naive but passionate usage of perceived silver bullets tends to create terrible things. there are many terrible coffeescript/backbone codebases, overwrought usage of redux, etc...

Many of such overcomicated systems come from trying to use the latest coolest thing without thinking about if it improved anything. the tools were never used correctly and the person just moved on, marking JS as a shitty language with a shitty ecosystem.

When there’s always something new on the horizon it’s too easy to assume the previous difficulty was because of the old tool vs taking the time to just learn the tool.

There are many developers who don’t really understand MVC for example and so much pain comes from trying to ham fist a jquery mentality into one.