" people have written apps with vanilla JavaScript for a very long time now, and it works just fine. "
No, it doesn't, or else TS would not exist.
TS just outclasses JS on almost every front, it's not a religious statement, it's generally true: TS is the standard, it just has too many advantages over JS to allow JS inside the roost.
Though article is only misleading to the point wherein they're talking about TS vs other languages, for solving other problems.
> " people have written apps with vanilla JavaScript for a very long time now, and it works just fine. "
> No, it doesn't, or else TS would not exist.
Think about what you just wrote there.
It's also entirely possible that a given tool can work fine, but other people can build on top of it without irrationally claiming that said tool doesn't work. Elixir and Kotlin are examples of tools that improve upon other runtimes(Erlang and Java), but I've yet to hear anyone from either language community act so dismissive to anyone who chooses to write applications in Erlang or Java as some TypeScript users are towards vanilla JavaScript users.
" people have written apps with vanilla JavaScript for a very long time now, and it works just fine. "
No, it doesn't, or else TS would not exist.
TS just outclasses JS on almost every front, it's not a religious statement, it's generally true: TS is the standard, it just has too many advantages over JS to allow JS inside the roost.
Though article is only misleading to the point wherein they're talking about TS vs other languages, for solving other problems.