It would be amazing if typescript could become the browser standard. I'm currently suffering from performance and readability issues from writing and filling typed structs in javascript with non-word alignment.

e.g. I've got data like this:

    struct Point{
    	float x, y, z;
    	unsigned char r, g, b;
    	unsigned short intensity;
    	double gps_time;
    }

    Point[] points = new Point[1234];

Reading, generating, and manipulating data like this is a bitch in javascript. Typed arrays have to be aligned to the byte size of it's type and because the offset of gps_time isn't at a multiple of 8, it's not possible to read it with Float64Arrays. DataView works but it's an order of magnitude (!!) slower than typed arrays so the best thing I can do for now is to read a double by treating everything as Uint8Array(), and then read the 8 bytes of the double into a temporary ArrayBuffer that can be used to convert between types.

My hope is that Typescripts type system is good enough to be able to treat this kind of data similarely as you can in C++, and that it would then become standard.