I find myself far more productive in TypeScript because it lets me plan more (by writing types before the implementation, which often exposes silly things that I can fix before writing a lot of code) and generally be more hasty while still having confidence that my code is more or less correct. I use strict: true and rarely run into problems, especially because I can just use as in the uncommon cases that I can't convince the TypeScript compiler of something.
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What did you mean by TypeScript not being happy with checking for the existence of variables with
!!? TypeScript is perfectly happy to do that:I find myself far more productive in TypeScript because it lets me plan more (by writing types before the implementation, which often exposes silly things that I can fix before writing a lot of code) and generally be more hasty while still having confidence that my code is more or less correct. I use
strict: trueand rarely run into problems, especially because I can just useasin the uncommon cases that I can't convince the TypeScript compiler of something.