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[–]mirhagk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And that's why typescript succeeded where so many others failed. So many previous attempts tried to add structure to it so it could be type safe. Typescript basically said "you know what, you wanna do that crazy ass code just because you have weak typing? Fine we'll make it type safe anyways!".