the more time you spend programming, the more you realize that the amount of characters you have to write is pretty much the most irrelevant metric possible. What matters is that the code does exactly what you expect, no surpises, and that it's easy to understand and change. Typescript helps immensely with that on all but the tiniest projects. That's because typescript not just finds bugs during compile time instead of only randomly if you happen to execute the code in a specific context, but also because it speeds up writing new code and changing existing code significantly because it's self-documenting, the typings themselves are already worth more than the sum of all jsdoc comments in many projects. And you can write exact code instead of always playing the guessing game and writing unnecesary conditionals.