> without Tesla there would be almost no electric car market.

This is the Great Man theory of history applied to industry. Without Tesla, someone else would have done it because the confluence of available technologies came together.

I’ve been writing TS for a year now and I find TS annoying. Especially for react components with state management of some kind, the types get so complex you almost need unit tests to assert they are what you think they are. Additionally, TS being a structural type system with no access to nominal types at all eliminates a whole class of “ghosts of departed proofs” modeling techniques. (And, I know you can work around this, but those workarounds are ugly.)

My view is that I’d use TS if I have to but I’d pick either plain JS / CLJS or something like purescript if I really wanted types.

The real purpose of TypeScript is job creation. Corporations constantly need new ways to keep their employees busy, distracted, and compliant. I really hope that one day, most developers will realize that there are far more important things than static typing... I mean so much more important that it makes static typing seem completely futile and even counterproductive.

You may downvote today, but you might understand what I mean in 5 to 10 years. I've been through all the phases already. I'm even exhausted trying to explain it to people. The hype is too strong. Good luck, gen z.

Actually, there is renewable wnergy

I think this doesn't quite grapple with the idea of what "The Future" is. Remember that we were supposed to have flying cars in the 1980's, because that's what "The Future" was to people in the 1950's/60's. The problem was that everybody was still thinking in terms of personal vehicles you could drive around, and not flight patterns, traffic control, navigation, propulsion, training, fuel, the expenses of development and production. I think our scripting languages will be basically the same for the near future, if only for the fact that "hand-crafted software" sounds like the development of cars before Henry Ford.