It is nice the author mentioned F#, because if you want to target the browser (or any JavaScript runtime), you can do from F# directly from fable (https://fable.io). This allows you to program by default in a type safe manner without having to play tricks to circumvent the limits of structural typing.

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robrenaud 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I suspect idiomatic TypeScript or idiomatic F# are both way better solutions in the real world than abstruse Typescript emulating idiomatic F#.

	▲	exceptione 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Possibly, but I think what we wish for is a language with a nominal type system that lets you switch to structural typing when needed. Luckily, F# has type providers, which lets the compiler construct nominal types based on the structure of real data (like json, xml or any format you want), saving you from the effort of building wrapper types by hand.