[blobs]

> TypeScript crew have managed to build something that can get traction where other efforts have not.

You mean Microsoft managed to get traction? It seems most TS proponents don't realize TS is a success because they fell for smart marketing and serious money behind the project, not because it's a better language than 'other efforts' like for example Purescript or Dart.

But every comment I make against TS seems futile. TS proponents defend their little language very fiercely regardless of all the flaws it has. It's almost worth a study how Microsoft managed to do that. Overall a real pity, because there are so many better options and ideas for those who want static typing. TS is actually the worse choice IMAO.

[DonHopkins]

>It's almost worth a study how Microsoft managed to do that.

It's almost as if Microsoft learned the techniques of linguistic evangelism from Sun when they studied the ideas behind Java to design C#, but they left out the anti-linguistic-miscegenation Java-supremacist ideals of "100% Pure Java [TM]" when they made it easy to integrate other mongrel languages with COM and P/Invoke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19571635

[TomMarius]

They did it by solving a great pain of a very large amount of people. Not many of these people would have been able to use Dart or PureScript.

[tigershark]

Typescript unlike Dart, Purescript, Fable and BuckleScript is a superset of JavaScript so you don’t have to change anything in your existing JavaScript project to start using Typescript. Also JavaScript interop is a breeze and a huge percentage of the libraries have already typescript binding and it’s a huge advantage compared to using the aforementioned languages.