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This is such a weird point to me, maybe pedantry at best. Typescript is, to 99% of people, just Javascript with types. With few exceptions, TS compiles 1:1 to JS.

That blog article just looks like an intro for beginners who don't quite know what static typing entails. Yes, static typing is different from runtime checks, that's why it's static.




The devil is in the detail




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