> How does this differ from trusting a compiler or interpreter?

When was the last time you found a bug and it was the compiler or interpreter's fault?

At any rate, the big difference is debugging, as I mentioned above. How fun is it to debug code which you only kind of indirectly wrote?

The code output by typescript is generally pretty readable depending on the target, and the source mapping works very well regardless. The debuggers in all major browsers and ides handle it fine.

I've not come across any bugs caused by typescript itself in the time I've been using it since 2014, and my point was that this is the same for c or any other language - how fun is it to debug assembly you only kind of wrote