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That would be a great solution, because while I love Typescript, I hate compiled web code. One of the coolest things about the internet is that as it's supposed to work, you can download the source code for any website you go to. It's open source by design. I hate closed source websites and I hate compiled website code that helps close the source it's quite a contradiction because typescript is awesome and I recognise that compilation is the only way to get it to run on our web infrastructure. So it would be great if we could just type JavaScript and solve the contradiction that way.
Doesn't typescript compile to js anyways? Is it obfuscated?
It's not intentionally obfuscated or minified. Generally it just strips out types and comments, but depending on how it's configured, it will rewrite certain things to work in ES5. At my work our build process uses a separate minification and bundling step, which also serves to a obfuscate our proprietary code.
It transpiles to js and there is some level of stripping for optimization yes.