[Rhino55]

This is an absurd and outrageous statement. Akin to the full pay glossy ads for oil companies in Vanity Fair with messages like "We care about people and nature".

M$ is serious about embrace, extend, extinguish. M$ is not serious about supporting the computing community, is not serious about creating powerful platforms, and has gone out of its way to serious damage the knowledge economy.

Microsoft will destroy this technology just like it destroys everything it touches. Microsoft is the Chuck Bass of computing. If you get that reference, you are probably looking at someone else's computer right now.

The thing you see in front of you is, perhaps 10% Microsoft and 90% the work of a small number of dedicated individuals. Microsoft has shown a track record of destroying good technology and ignoring the community standards process.

I sincerely hope that someone rips this idea off and liberates it from Microsoft. Typed JavaScript is not patentable or copyright-able, and Google beat the daylights out of Oracle over Java, so I think this is fair game.

tl;dr I give this project 18 months before the M$ business machine starts using TypeScript as a weapon.