Our readingWhat is a korrent?
People adopted TypeScript for the tooling, not the types: an erasable type system is worth having because of the productivity the tooling built on it delivers.
Drawn from what Anders Hejlsberg said
What this subject means
TypeScript A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
On the topicDo static types make software better?under our view: Types pay for themselves, mostly through the tools that can be built on them