Comment by phatskat

Correct, at least from my experience. In my personal projects I was heavily Vanilla JS, but I also didn’t care if IE didn’t have full functionality (I did try to use graceful degradation when functionality was important, like navigation), but in any professional setting it would be maddening to rely on JS and not use something like jQuery. Coding around how each browser decided to give scroll position or the differences in accessing other DOM properties by hand could be tedious depending on what you wanted to do, and jQuery abstracted that effectively.

I think you’re correct that, if the language formally adopted types, it would look similar to TypeScript. How _much_ of TS would be mirrored may be a different story - it’s incredibly extensive in some areas, I’m still learning new things about it as I’ve only recently started getting into it for work, and there’s a lot to it beyond basic type support.