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You can ignore the borrow checker at least by using mrustc. And some type checks at least could be optional. The fact that they aren't isn't really a fundamental property of Rust, it's just because it's easy to make them not optional.

In my experience nobody writes Typescript without checking the types. Unlike Python for example where it's not uncommon to have broken types. (And it's way more of a mess in general.)

The Rust equivalent is more like using `unsafe` and derefing raw pointers

Yeah and you can explicitly assert a null is a string in TS, but it's explicit. You can't build a Rust program without those asserts but it's trivial to skip the type checking for TS which is more of a linter than a type system.

I disagree that TS is more of a linter. But I definitely feel sympathetic to that perspective.

I’ll pull off the cleanest, nicest generic constraints on some component that infers everything perfectly and doesn’t allow invalid inputs, just for a coworker to throw @ts-nocheck on the entire file. It hurts

If you don’t run tsc you are not really using typescript.