You misunderstood it : )

I love Java and despise Javascript.

In my opinion it is up there with null and other billion dollar mistakes.

The language only works as well as it does because hundreds of people smarter than me have spent hundreds of man-years creating toolings and ecosystems around it to work around all its problems.

This is not to be read as a dismissal of Brendan Eich or anyone - it is totally amazing that he threw together a language that has worked so amazingly well in three weeks.

But everytime one switches between TS and JS one wonders how much money could have been saved if he had somehow invented TS instead back then.

How about instead of analogies (which we've misunderstood even on this thread), just say this: "Java and Javascript are very different languages, don't be confused by the similarity of the names".

Of course, at this point virtually everyone knows this, now we are only arguing about which analogy to use to describe something we all understand.

He said "in the same way as a bike with one wheel is a simpler version of an ordinary bike." Meaning, not the same thing.

I don't think that's what he meant.