## What's The Problem?

- Quite a small team of people currently have quite a lot of power
- They've chosen to handle that by delegating their power to TC39
- In the future, under less benevolent leadership, this could be a problem

## De-forking TypeScript

### Dropping Runtime Features

- TypeScript has, in recent years, shied away from adding runtime features

## Runtime Types In JavaScript?

- Never going to happen
- Browsers will block it
- Not even as 'performance hints'
