Yeah, dropping typescript and then codifying type information in jsdoc is comical.

The only thing I would say about your experience is that “dropping TS for go” os a little bit misleading, and it doesn’t really sound like it bears on the general debate of “TS vs. JS” - go and other static languages generally fit a different niche in my opinion, and can be a better option for certain kinds of systems.

If you’re building anything of even moderate complexity, or with more than one person, you really need the types and modularity that TS provides.

I guess it’s also worth noting that JS has actually been influenced/adopted some key features from TS over the years, so it’s possible to do a few things with it to make stuff that’s a bit more maintainable.