> TypeScript is a wonderfully advanced language though it has an unfortunately steep learning curve; in many ways it’s the complete opposite of Go.

Replace "TypeScript" with "C++" and the same can be said.

It is one of the worst languages ever designed and already built on top of a sloppy foundation (Javascript) compared to Go.

The language encourages escape hatches and tons of flexibility on how it checks its types and creates the risk of inconsistency to engineers on which rules to adopt and there is always one engineer that will disagree with some settings and argue to turn on/off a rule to defeat the purpose of the language.

At this stage, its no better than C++ but significantly slower, and I've seen the same mistakes (enums, allowing "as XYZ" casting, etc) in C++ creeping into TypeScript.

Even the entire language parser and type checker is being rewritten in Go. [0]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...