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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.

Drawn from what Anders Hejlsberg said

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

On the topicDo static types make software better?under our view: The best types are the ones you can add gradually or let the compiler infer

What Anders Hejlsberg actually said

  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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    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com

    13 May 2026 · video · 1h 16m · spoken · machine transcript

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