[coldtea]

>They should finally acknowledge the existence of typescript and not push everyone to their flow.

They should support a niche third party competitor tool on their freely available and FOSS tooling?

[oyvey]

>niche

wrong. typescript is vastly more popular than flow.

>competitor tool

hey if they got that thinking, its fine. its their product but from my user perspective I just want to let them know that I could really use some first class TS support.

[coldtea]

>wrong. typescript is vastly more popular than flow.

Irrelevant, as both are still niche.

[bcherny]

According to npmjs.com:

- TypeScript: 4,745,783 downloads in the last month

- Flow: 889,612 downloads in the last month

[exogen]

I'm guessing you're looking at `flow-bin`, which was not the official way to get the Flow binary for a long time (nor was installing it per-project), because the underlying executable isn't JavaScript. It would be more accurate to measure `babel-preset-flow`: https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-preset-flow (2M in the last month)

[bcherny]

Good catch. I also couldn't get numbers for `brew install flow` - are these tracked somewhere?

[exogen]

They are! https://brew.sh/analytics/install/

[bcherny]

Awesome. So we have 159,359 downloads via brew over the last year.