An observation that is nearly impossible to make is that JS is something like 20 years behind the rest of the world in so many ways. Now that it has moved on from being a little glue scripting language and people are building complex software with it, all the same problems that Java or C++ or Unix have encountered in the past are coming home to roost, and more structure and tooling is required.

> You don’t even have to be aware that TS exists.

I never thought of it this way, a very interesting insight.

TS has introduced an entirely new type (pun intended) of FOSS that isn't even code, it's just header files to let you know what the inputs/outputs of things are.