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> Surely preventing 99% of issues (or 90%, or 80%) is good?

You can’t assume there aren’t other trade-offs that you have to factor in to the analysis.




You're totally right. Different teams and situations require different tradeoffs.

While TypeScript is great for the tradeoffs I deal with, there are certainly others where it's not.

Good call out.




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