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You can, but then JavaScript frameworks or "old" SSR/MVC are just better.

Nope. Being able to write in C# using a vast array of C# libraries in the browser is orders of magnitude better than writing in JS or even TS. C# is enormously superior to JS and superior to TS.

If you care more about development experience than users, that's fine, but in the case of SPA, JS frameworks will be faster and lighter.

For me the problem with TypeScript is not the language, JS/TS are fine for me, the problem is the entire toolchain - NodeJS, all the node_modules, configuration files, the need to compile.

Maybe Svelte, where they got rid of TypeScript and the types are now in JSDoc, could be a compromise.

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