Yeah, this seems like a non-issue, to me. When the ISP sees pirated traffic, they have to issue a notice to the customer, and that customer is Hampton Inn. The ISP doesn’t know or care that the end user isn’t Hampton employees. They’re just covering their ass, legally.

Don’t pirate without a proper VPN.

I read it to mean that this method has confirmed “almost no real person has spoken to me”.

No question, this is what the moneymen want. They see programmers (all human employees, really) as a liability.

Then the second part of my statement applies.

Not to short-circuit the joke, but in this case, it’s because the valid JavaScript version is…

let a

…and one of TypeScript’s main design goals is to be a superset of JavaScript, that only adds syntax, and doesn’t re-write it.

Beyond that, it’s probably a case of some new language just using what the designer is familiar with.