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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

SubjectTypeScript

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

    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

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