Migrate `String` to `StringPrototype`, `Number` to `NumberPrototype`, etc

Suggestion

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string prototype object number stringprototype

✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

⭐ Suggestion

We're always seeing people writing String, Number, Object, and so on, in places where they should be writing their primitive equivalents.

We should mark these as @deprecated so that they show up with strikethroughs in the editor, and make new global interfaces named e.g. StringPrototype so it's more clear what they're for.

/**
 * @deprecated Use `string` when working with strings, or use `StringPrototype` to declare new string methods
 */
interface String {

For back compat, possibly forever, we'll need to declare these as

interface StringPrototype extends String { }

so that existing references to String["charAt"] continue to work and so that other merges continue to function.

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• New users coming to TS

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the proposed global interface changes and the linked TypeScript design goals; done would mean deprecated wrapper interfaces and compatible StringPrototype, NumberPrototype, and related declarations without breaking existing references.