This is extremely unfair and rude. The TS language designer and lead developer is Anders Hejlsberg, who is also the chief architect of C# and Delphi. C# has been tremendously successful and, in my opinion, is truly wonderful as a general purpose language.
In the case of Typescript the team were working under very difficult constraints - the language must maintain strict compatibility with Javascript, and the output must be executable by a web browser that has never even heard of the language.
In the case of Typescript the team were working under very difficult constraints - the language must maintain strict compatibility with Javascript, and the output must be executable by a web browser that has never even heard of the language.