I’m not really sure that being open source here means much of anything, but an SO alternative definitely sounds good. Thanks for the tip.

Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.

Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.

No question, this is what the moneymen want. They see programmers (all human employees, really) as a liability.

Then the second part of my statement applies.

Not to short-circuit the joke, but in this case, it’s because the valid JavaScript version is…

let a

…and one of TypeScript’s main design goals is to be a superset of JavaScript, that only adds syntax, and doesn’t re-write it.

Beyond that, it’s probably a case of some new language just using what the designer is familiar with.