| Just a side note / counter note: >"While I have a lot of respect for the creators of TS," Creators of TypeScript are Microsoft. To any readers unfamiliar with TypeScript and Microsoft's ethics, be sure to research their past corporate ethics to understand whether or not they are trustworthy as a company (or at least those who lead their overarching market strategies. Here is one example, and to me, it describes where TypeScript is going (imho): "The strategy's three phases are: ---> Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard. ---> Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard. ---> Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... For this reason, out of sheer convictions in anti-unethical corporate behavior, I steer clear of TypeScript, and I encourage others to do so as well-- especially those who care about corporate ethics. |
I agree that Microsoft's influence should be observed and considered carefully.