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Comment by jesse__ | Hacker News Reader

> Always, Always Require a Compilation Step [...] as opposed to, say, writing code as it will be run

I have a hard time believing that writing vanilla JS is superior to using a compiled language in any but very simple cases. Seems like bad advice to me.

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Node now executes TS directly without a build step. This includes TypeScript that only executes in the browser. Just import the given code file into your Node application and then send the output as a string:

    my_script.toString();

Boom, strongly typed code with no compile step that executes in both Node and the browser.

I think the author meant to say use as many build steps as possible

the nuance of the statement lies in the first word, repeated for emphasis

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