I think you misread the post! I very much like TypeScript, am a core contributor to the TS work in the Ember.js ecosystem, and am actively involved in efforts to make TS a first-class supported language in my day job!
> If you talked to me about types in programming languages six or seven years ago, you would quickly have learned that I was not a fan.
> I was working with Python and JavaScript and simply didn’t miss types at. all
> I understand why I thought that types were worthless from 2012 – 2014. In fact, for the specific languages I had used up to that point, I continue to think that the types don’t really pay for themselves.
Ah, I can see how you got there. I was not working with TS then; like most people I didn’t yet even know it existed. At the time, I preferred untyped JS and Python to typed C, Fortran, Java, C++.
