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> As I see large front-end teams frequently pushing JS from a typescript base lately, I'm not sure that even the JS community supports "everything JS" anymore.

Given how close typescript is to javascript, wouldn't it be more appropriate to treat it as just a dialect of javascript (like coffescript was) rather than a different language like python or go would be?

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In the sense that there's extra meta information (type) it can be used as a frontend for other things than JS, so I could easily see

1) TS to WEBASM (once JS is out of the picture, might be awhile, lol...)

2) TS as an LLVM IR frontend (compiled TS on the server)

which is basically predicated upon industry familiarity as it's selling point, so yeah, I could see where it's also just a JS industry side-effect. A wart remover, lol

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