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> Objectively, it simply isn't, obviously

To be fair, TS has some pretty bad unsoundness problems, especially regarding co/contra variance in generics, and for example some annoying weirdness with number/string keys in objects. Still, the type system is one of the most amazing ones I know.

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Yeah but if you think about it they are putting a straight jacket on a madman while a committee organizes regular PCP shipments to said madman.

That they got it to work amazes me, that they got it to work well astounds me.

It's one of the few parts of my stack that I interact with every day I don't occasionally want to hunt down the creators of.

> It's one of the few parts of my stack that I interact with every day I don't occasionally want to hunt down the creators of.

Reactive Extensions was definitely one of those pieces of stacks.

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