[AskJS] Does anyone still use "vanilla" JS?

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    Answering the question as posted, about "Vanilla JS" - also no. Most serious programmers are defaulting to Typescript for much the same reasons as above: very light learning curve, very easy to setup and a tremendous benefit even for a 100-lines script file. Personally, I'm often going straight for Deno. At work all our application / library / test etc.... code is in TS, and for scripts my go-to command is

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