as

[zaoqi]

var a=("a" as any) as string;

static const char * a;
int main(void) {
    a = /* Unsupported node: ("a" as any) as string */;
     ;

    return 0;
}

[andrei-markeev]

I'm concentrating on ES3 for now, so supporting TS features such as type conversions is still very far away.