Nah, my day job is writing C++ and most of my side projects are C. I have nothing against compiled languages, and if the compiler is fast enough, just having `make && ./whatever` in my shell history is almost indistinguishable from `node index.js`. It's just that it takes _over a second_ for tsc to compile hello world, and all javascript tooling feels similarly sluggish to me. I have similar issues with java; make starts compiling stuff in microseconds, while grade doesn't spawn a javac process in what feels like forever.

I probably shouldn't have lead with the "not only is it an extra step" thing.