At first I thought I was going to read "I am starting to wonder if the preference static vs dynamic is some kind of character trait like intelligent vs ignorant", which would have been much closer to the truth. I think you're very incorrect. Maintaining a codebase of any sufficient size and complexity without static typing is a poor investment of development time. It can be done, obviously, but it's a nightmare. Typescript is a bandaid for web-development's biggest open wound. Taken on its own merits ( ignoring the garbage ecosystem, terrible tooling, etc ) Typescript is a decent enough language, but it's not a clever one. Is Typescript better than vanilla Node.js? Absolutely. Is it worth introducing to an area without Node.js? Absolutely not. If your project is any more complex than a four page CRUD app, in my opinion you're better off going with a bigger player like Java/.Net. These languages are more robust, more mature, there's better tooling, better community... The list goes on.