The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is not worth it

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• A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026JavaScript
• 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. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026JavaScript
• Fiscal multipliers vary across time and place but are generally nonzero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and larger when monetary policy cannot offset them. OBOlivier Blanchard1 Jun 2022JavaScript
• Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026JavaScript
• Good things happen when you do not test implementation details: tests written with the React and Vue testing libraries look almost identical. KDKent C. Dodds20 Oct 2018JavaScript

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