While the answer of TypeScript’s creators is “yes,” academic researchers who work on similar programming languages tend to ...

And 'client' is kind of another word for customer ... Or I might ask, 'what can we do to make sure things run smoothly on your side?' And 'on your side' just means 'from your perspective'.

Think of a bash script as a tiny application you create that consists of Linux commands. You can write bash scripts to do just about anything, such as create backups, set variables, open applications, ...