My intent was just to emphasize that I’m comparing Go against writing JavaScript for the Node runtime and not in the browser, that is all, but you are correct.

Regarding Typescript, I actually am a big fan of it, and I almost never write vanilla JS anymore. I feel my team uses it well and work out the kinks with code review. My primary complaint, though, is that I cannot trust any other team to do the same, and TS supports escape hatches to bypass or lie about typing.

I work on a project with a codebase shared by several other teams. Just this week I have been frustrated numerous times by explicit type assertions of variables to something they are not (`foo as Bar`). In those cases it’s worse than vanilla JS because it misleads.