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by rsimp 2714 days ago
Ironically typescript doesn't have a supported language server from MS. TSServer (in the typescript npm package) is language server-esque and that's what VS Code plugs into. I believe the main language server for typescript is maintained by sourcegraph.

VS Code is written in typescript though and the projects have a pretty nice cadence of new features. Typescript is very much a first class citizen in VS Code
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int_19h 2714 days ago
Pretty much anything that comes from Microsoft today that is a web app, or uses the HTML for UI on the desktop (such as Electron apps), is likely to be written in TS. Not even because there's some push to do so, but because people who mostly write in C# and C++ find TS far more preferable.

(That, by the way, is one reason why you can trust that it's not going away anytime soon.)

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