LittleLily

All of the dictionary definitions it replied with are just made up to sound correct and not what those dictionaries actually say:

Merriam-Webster’s definition is “not popular : viewed or received unfavorably by the public” Oxford’s definition is “not liked or enjoyed by a person, a group or people in general” Cambridge’s definition is “not liked by many people”

This is why you don’t ask a LLM for factual information. It comes up with whatever it thinks sounds right, it doesn’t actually go look up factual information for you.

Just fyi, while they don’t help with running TS in the browser, the Bun and Deno runtimes both natively run TS without any compilation.

Also to add that “well known principles and approaches” doesn’t always equal good, readable, maintainable code; especially when it comes to a lot of OOP principles. Abstracting everything into a Factory/Decorator/whatever pattern you might think is the best approach after having only worked with OOP principles your whole career is almost always not what’s actually the best way to structure things. In fact the code OP is complaining about may not even be that bad, it might just look so to someone who has no familiarity with any programming practices (like FP) that are outside their bubble.