Of all the new fangled crap to emerge in js ecosystem over past decade, typescript stands out to me as perhaps the best and least BS of them. I would love for typing to be supported by ecmascript but unless it arrives full featured I'm concerned it will then be typescript vs ecmascript types and landscape will simply be more cluttered with competing options. Just like how new browsers have half assed support for es6 modules. Free me from the toolchain hell of js, please, I'm waiting eagerly