> I'm not entirely convinced that that is the case, TypeScript can be it's own language in itself. Not really a problem now but a few years back people struggled to even learn new versions of JavaScript in itself, let alone a the libraries with their different paradigms.

I think that's just a coincidence. We happen to know people who are starting to learn JavaScript (and learning new languages is always a struggle), and so naturally they also struggle to learn TypeScript when faced with those concepts for the first time. But this is more The Evolution of a Programmer kind of thing.

> Also to get where Mint is you would probably need to learn: TypeScript, React, styled-components, Jest, prettier, Webpack, Redux (or one of the alternatives), Babel and that's just from the top of my head.

A lot of these (Babel, prettier, Webpack) just need a good starter configuration and can be mostly ignored afterwards. The rest mostly boil down to concepts: Jest stands in for any testing framework, there's nothing special about it; TypeScript for a mostly-basic type system; React for a basic declarative UI framework; styled-components for mostly-just CSS encapsulation.

> There will be dependencies sure and you will take care of them as usual, what I am saying is that with Mint you will only need a few.

Ah I understand better now what you meant: the concepts that come built into Mint are ones you don't have to worry about getting an external dependency for.