Not really. `import type` just means that this import is guaranteed to be removed when compiling to JS. TS already fully erases types during compilation, and this is just a way to guarantee that the imports of types are guaranteed to be erased as well.

E.g. for `import { SomeType } from "backend-server"`, you don't want to include your entire server code in the frontend just because you imported the response type of some JSON API. `import type` neatly solves this issue, and it even enforces that you can't import anything but types from your backend.

I also want to state that TS already removes regular `import`s that only import types. `import type` is mostly used to help bundlers. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...