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Expand Up @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ Notice two things here:
2. Our "template string" - that string that used backticks (the `` ` `` character) - was converted to plain strings with concatenations.

More on that second point later, but let's now focus on that first point.
Type annotations aren't part of JavaScript (or ECMAScript to be pedantic), so there really aren't any browsers or other runtimes that can just run TypeScript unmodified.
Type annotations aren't part of JavaScript (or ECMAScript to be pedantic), so in reality, no browser or runtime can directly execute unmodified TypeScript unless it's [TypeScript 7](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/).
That's why TypeScript needs a compiler in the first place - it needs some way to strip out or transform any TypeScript-specific code so that you can run it.
Most TypeScript-specific code gets erased away, and likewise, here our type annotations were completely erased.

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