alt Hacker News> I am still of the opinion that well organized and named JS is all that anyone needs
You probably didn't work on any medium or large codebase and didn't have to do a refactor.
> it has always just felt like a maneuver to create a safehaven to C# and java devs scrambling to find roles in the modern landscape
What a nonsense. Perhaps read history of TypeScript and you'll learn why it was created.
You really should just not assume things about people with no reason other than "they dont like the things i like so therefor they must not be experienced". I've worked on plenty of very very large codebases with large teams.
> What a nonsense. Perhaps read history of TypeScript and you'll learn why it was created.
did you? it was created by microsoft, a C# shop, to support their existing workflows around typing and hinting support. The typescript creation team was literally led by the guy who made C#.