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I hope I’ve got this right, but if the author is comparing typescript to a modern tooling environment, while there are technical differences, I may not trust those maintainers more than Microsoft at language design and support.

I don’t think you can write off the cost of learning all of those different tools in the non-Typescript environment. Typescript at least centralizes everything and I trust Microsoft to do good language development because of C#’s legacy alone.

Those tools have a negligable learning curve because once you set them up, you can simply forget about them and write JavaScript code.

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