This myth really needs to die. Sorry for the harsh language, it&#x27;s the TS team&#x27;s fault for not taking this ongoing PR blunder seriously.<p>You can (and always could) use almost <i>any</i> 3rd party lib with literally one line of code:<p><pre><code>    var somelib: any;
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Done. No need to ever touch a .d.ts file.<p>Sure, no type safety on the lib. But isn&#x27;t that where we started, anyway?<p>This should be put on a giant banner on the TS homepage.