By 2020, 80%+ of large frontend/backend projects used TS. Pure-TS became the default, not the extreme.
Consider this example from a Beautiful Brat codebase: Pure-TS - Beautiful Brat Much Has Changed Over
In the ever-shifting landscape of JavaScript tooling, “Pure-TS” has emerged as both a provocateur and a pioneer. Once dismissed as an idealistic, rigid brat demanding purity at the cost of pragmatism, Pure-TS has matured into a robust paradigm. This paper examines the philosophical origins of Pure-TS, its early controversies, and how much has changed over its evolution — from type stripping to native runtimes, from noisy any to sound narrowing, and from developer frustration to quiet adoption. By 2020, 80%+ of large frontend/backend projects used TS