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Typescript is wonderful, especially as someone used to writing a lot of java/groovy. Typescript is like pouring cement around your javascript house of cards. It makes writing front end code painless and predictable.

It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff.

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> It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff.

... and in the free Visual Studio Code, also crossplatform like IntelliJ.

(Nothing against IntelliJ, JetBrains is a cool company with amazing products IMO, I just prefer VSCode myself.)

I think VS Code is almost like a little brother of IntelliJ now but better at a few places. (Especially rendering.)

>It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff.

Yes, this makes writing Typescript actually faster for me than vanilla JS. The code completion in IntelliJ is really amazing.

I wonder what people are using to write code with for those that complain vanilla JS works fine. Vanilla vim?

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