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Because its types are erased before the program runs, TypeScript can afford not to be sound: checking 99% beats the 0% JavaScript checked, and buys features a sound language cannot offer.

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TypeScript A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

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  1. Anders Hejlsberg

    Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow

    So, if we're checking 99% instead of 100%, well, heck, that's better than the 0% that JavaScript checked, right? And it gives you like language features that no other languages can provide because they can't get to 100%.

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