JuniorTheoryCommon

What does tsc report for this file?

TypeScript

try {
    JSON.parse("{");
} catch (e) {
    console.log(e.message);
}

An error: e has the type unknown

Expecting e to be an Error in catch: throw accepts any value, so under strict mode tsc types e as unknown.
Expecting tsc to check the text inside JSON.parse("{"): it sees only a string, and the bad JSON fails at run time.

How do you read e.message safely in this catch?
Why is e typed any in a promise's .catch((e) => …) but unknown in a try/catch?

JuniorTheoryCommon

TypeScript

try {
    JSON.parse("{");
} catch (e) {
    console.log(e.message);
}

An error: e has the type unknown

Expecting e to be an Error in catch: throw accepts any value, so under strict mode tsc types e as unknown.
Expecting tsc to check the text inside JSON.parse("{"): it sees only a string, and the bad JSON fails at run time.

How do you read e.message safely in this catch?
Why is e typed any in a promise's .catch((e) => …) but unknown in a try/catch?