Comment by sbjs

More and more projects are adding TypeScript definition files for us, and many are even being written (or rewritten) using TypeScript directly! I honestly think TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. In fact, I can't help but wonder what Microsoft's long term goal is with TS. They're making such blazingly fast progress with it, that I can't help but wonder if this is the "incubation" period of the language, and when it's finally "ready to hatch", they're going to do something big. Almost like this phase of TypeScript's life would traditionally be done inside MS privately, but they wanted to benefit from giving back to the community, from trust building within the community, and from being able to say "we provided the most advances to the JavaScript language out of any contributors by far" and somehow use that as leverage. Maybe they'll make an official TC39 proposal that TypeScript syntax be integrated into JavaScript, complete with a de facto free and open source implementation that browsers and Node.js are free to use to strip types live at compile-time. I just don't get it. They made VS Code, they bought Github, they made TypeScript... where are they going with this? I honestly wonder.