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As someone who is relatively new to webdev stuff, I gotta ask... what is the point of typescript? Like, is it faster than JS, does it have more functions or smth? To me it just looks like JS with extra steps and a really, REALLY cursed way to declare variables.
No, it is slower than JS but it can be compiled to JS. The point of typescript is bringing static (or generally talking, predictable) types to variables, so that treating erroneously a number as a string should be more difficult. In a large codebase, it's easy to make mistakes and debugging is not instantaneous but it needs time. Typescript helps here. You write more code but it helps you out later
TS syntax is still the most cursed thing I've ever seen
Then it just sounds like you've not written any typed languages yet
I have some knowledge on C# and I've used C++ before... I really like C# (Ik it's not technically fully statically typed but it gets the point across), ASP.net just has too many hoops to jump through just to get a project started, it's kinda annoying.