TypeScript in Visual Studio Community 2017

Just loaded up the VS 2017 community release. The TS 2.1 features include strong types relating to null and undefined. A bit annoying, but none the less it does force some decent console logging of salient error potential. I’ve found that many apparent error conditions are being removed. If only I could find a way to stop the coercion in JS, such that it is. It is one of the things I never liked about JS. I’d prefer an explicit cast every time.