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The extra typing is all worth it when I can fearlessly refactor a function or component. I've seen fear of breakage paralyze larger vanilla JS codebases.

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Exactly this. I love being confident in making changes to code. Especially once a project grows and other people are working on it.

That actually makes the most sense, of any reasons for using Typescript, that I've heard. Good point.

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