TypeScript 3.9 introduced a breaking change where extends `any` no longer acts as `any`, instead it acts as `unknown`.
With this change we retain the behavior we had with TS 3.8 which is;
When using the `EventEmitter` as a type you must always provide a type;
```ts
let emitter: EventEmitter<string>
```
and when initializing the `EventEmitter` class you can either provide a type or or use the fallback type which is `any`
```ts
const emitter = new EventEmitter(); // EventEmitter<any>
const emitter = new EventEmitte<string>(); // EventEmitter<string>
``
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