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The flag --experimental-strip-types has been enabled by default. Only syntax that dont require transformation is allowed. Syntax that require transformation are enum, namespaces (n…

Hi I'm the author of this feature, I'll answer to questions.

Node.js enables --experimental-strip-types by default

The first reason is because if we supported ts features that require transformation (such as enume) we would also need to support sourcemaps, so in the first iteration I decided no…

yes but can also be upgraded separately as npm package

We dont support running .ts files in node_modules, this is one of the main constraints to avoid breaking the ecosystem

this is the roadmap https://github.com/nodejs/loaders/issues/217 . We talked with the typescript team and we will give each other continous feedback on the progression. We made sur…

I made it sure to decouple the transpiler from node itself, the transpiler is in a npm package called amaro, that is bundled in node. The goal is to allow user to upgrade amaro ind…

Hi I'm the author of the PR, AMA