I don't like it but God help me if I try to bring up that we shouldn't use it. I understand it I just don't like how it slows everything down for in my opinion is not much gain.

As someone who is relatively new to webdev stuff, I gotta ask... what is the point of typescript? Like, is it faster than JS, does it have more functions or smth? To me it just looks like JS with extra steps and a really, REALLY cursed way to declare variables.