[nepeckman]

The developers providing everyone with free tools are or course welcome to write those tools in whatever languages they want. But to me, the comment definitions are longer to type and more difficult to parse than inline type definitions. I would much rather use one of the quick TS compilers that don't actually type check when I want to make and test a small change to my source code. But to each their own!

[cxr]

If a person value- TypeScript's inline syntax so much that they disagree with the developers that build steps are a nuisance, then surely they can put in a build step for themselves—one that takes TypeScript syntax as input and then "compiles" it into the equivalent JSDoc so they're never forced to type out those long, long comments. (If this is disagreeable, then your position is a lot less consistent than you think.)