Is anyone still sticking to #JavaScript instead of using #TypeScript? If so, why are you sticking with it? Please let me know your reasons!
@hongminhee For simple prototypes or small projects, where transpilation would be an unnecessary hassle (think single HTML file and JS with no or minimal dependencies), yeah. But for anything larger, TypeScript is the way to go. I cannot imagine maintaining a large project in pure JS.
@Razemix Yeah, for simple projects, transpilation would be overkill indeed. By the way, that's why I'd preferred Deno over Node.js. Node.js also transforms TypeScript code by default though.

@hongminhee @Razemix For simple Node projects you can use typescript since `node somefile.ts` works

If you use `erasableSyntaxOnly` to develop the typescript files Node can run them.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-5-8.html#the---erasablesyntaxonly-option

Documentation - TypeScript 5.8

TypeScript 5.8 Release Notes