I use VSCode, it’s helpful but It’s not remotely the same. With TS it’s better when the devs included documentation.

It will use typescript type definitions when available, even if you’re writing plain JS. Auto complete works perfectly, what’s not remotely the same?

It's not the same because in JS you usually would use a large number of libraries with varying degree of documentation and different conventions. Also, you would loose autocomplete when you expect to receive something as a parameter instead of defining it in that closure.

The basic language API is not that large, the benefit of autocomplete discovery comes when you have autocomplete on custom types of a specific framework accompanied with proper documentation.

I’m sure NestJS, which sparked this thread, has very complete type defs, as does any major framework out there.

You seem intent on dismissing something you obviously haven’t tried in the past couple years; next time I’d suggest a simple “I don’t like it” instead to save us all time.