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Well, even if it's directed at C# by Microsoft, it's used by a lot of people that are not into Visual Studio or Microsoft. TypeScript is a lot more than "IDE tooling", even though proper intellisense makes it a lot of nicer to develop.

It's not like Microsoft somehow failed to make VS good for JS, it's theoretically impossible to make VS do to JS what TS can do for any IDE.

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"it's used by a lot of people that are not into Visual Studio or Microsoft"

Really? Who? I just don't see them or they must be really good at abstracting away this activity.

I haven't seen any Papuan, ever. Doesn't mean they don't exist.

As a side project, I'm creating a framework to build Gjs applications using TypeScript. The neat thing is that the compiler can easily create a combined JavaScript file, which when appended to a stub JS file results in a single executable for installation. The bad part is that the supplied lib.d.ts contains definitions for objects that don't exist.

See https://wiki.gnome.org/JavaScript

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