This kind of aggressive "there is something wrong with you if you don't have the same preferences and priorities as me" is such a turn-off.
I don't use it because the compiler is just too slow; waiting 2.5 seconds for even simple files is a massive pain. I want the old "CoffeeScript experience" where you compile stuff on-demand in development and output errors in the webpage or stderr. It works very well, is low complexity, and requires almost no effort. But you can't as it's just too slow.
esbuild doesn't typecheck so it's not an option. And hugely complex background builders are, well, hugely complex, it's not an option.
TypeScript-the-language may be nice, but TypeScript-the-tooling is not particularly great.
And even if this was solved: any build step will add complexity. The ability to "just" fetch /script.js and "just" edit it is quite nice. This is also why I've avoided CSS pre-processors since forever (needed a bit less now that variables are widely supported).
Of course different projects are different and for some projects these downsides are less pronounced. There is no one perfect solution. But there are definitely downsides to using TypeScript.
I don't use it because the compiler is just too slow; waiting 2.5 seconds for even simple files is a massive pain. I want the old "CoffeeScript experience" where you compile stuff on-demand in development and output errors in the webpage or stderr. It works very well, is low complexity, and requires almost no effort. But you can't as it's just too slow.
esbuild doesn't typecheck so it's not an option. And hugely complex background builders are, well, hugely complex, it's not an option.
TypeScript-the-language may be nice, but TypeScript-the-tooling is not particularly great.
And even if this was solved: any build step will add complexity. The ability to "just" fetch /script.js and "just" edit it is quite nice. This is also why I've avoided CSS pre-processors since forever (needed a bit less now that variables are widely supported).
Of course different projects are different and for some projects these downsides are less pronounced. There is no one perfect solution. But there are definitely downsides to using TypeScript.