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Jenk — can you help me with a list of valid reasons to choose JavaScript so that the TypeScript community is pleased? This would help me a lot. Thank you!

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I would love to but I just can't see how it could be done.

I am interpreting the task as "how can we make people who favour strong typing favour not use strong typing?" - something that I just don't think is possible.

I guess the nearest experience you'll get is a zealous API convention that is inuitively consistent/discoverable, but then I would still favour a type system to remove that concern anyway.

The question is more like: "What are the benefits of choosing JavaScript over TypeScript?" You must know that there are pros and cons in every language. There is a reason languages like JS, Python, Zig, C, Go, Rust.. exist.

Given TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, it's actually a question of "Would you prefer it if we took these (TypeScript) things away?"

I was asking you to take a little distance from the TS-world and use your experience (and maybe emphaty) to look about the pros of JS. Preferrably a list that pleases the TS community. The fact that JS is an "universal language" and runs natively on browsers and Node is a definite one, but then again.. this was a question for you.

The "pros" of JS exist within TS.

My hot take is that you can't reason with a cult.

For me, Typescript is more like documentation combined with Grammarly.

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