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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

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

Do static types make software better?under our view: Types pay for themselves, mostly through the tools that can be built on them

What Anders Hejlsberg actually said

  1. Anders Hejlsberg Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow
    And the reason they came, I think, is absolutely because of the the better tooling. And I think we were totally right there that like adding a an erasable type system and then using that to enable great tooling is really where the pro where the programmer productivity boost is realized.

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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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