> TS "compilers" basically strip out the type annotations, they don't care about the validity of the types, so you'll be missing out on the main reason to be using TypeScript.

I guess I'd want a Typescript compiler that does the "type checking" before stripping out the type annotations. Like that's how TS is supposed to work.

If ESBuild doesn't do the type checking, then it probably doesn't fit my need.

Edit: In fairness, if my IDE does the type-checking, this is almost good enough.