From what I've read, many of TypeScript's design regrets have political origins. Enums and other features that oppose TS's structural type system were added as compromises with C# developers in MS and similar negotiations with the Angular team in order to increase adoption of TypeScript over alternatives

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pavo-etc a day ago | parent [-]

I would love to know where you read this!

	▲	culi a day ago \| parent [-]
		Oh gosh, I don't think I can recall a specific source. I've listened to many interviews with the TypeScript team and in Q&A they're often asked about their "biggest regrets". Early on TypeScript's adoption was far from a sure thing. After convincing Microsoft their biggest threat was Angular's own AtScript (and maybe even Flow). TypeScript was extremely beholden to whatever Microsoft or Angular devs wanted to be added to the language in order for them to agree to push TypeScript as the future