[throw_m239339]

> Honest question: why did TypeScript succeed while ActionScript 3.0, another ECMAScript-superset language with typing and OOP (and predates TS by a few years), is all but a distant memory? Is it more than just Adobe being a terrible steward of its tech?

Microsoft and Yahoo voted against ES4 adoption at the ECMA committee, cause Microsoft had, what was it called again? Silverlight, Their flash alternative to promote so they weren't interested in improving Javascript in anyway. Due to Microsoft stupidity, carelessness for standards, the web lost a decade of improvements.

Adding insult to injury in that absurd era, Microsoft had its own AS3 implementation called JScript.net before C# became more popular.

I'm surprised nobody ever wrote a book about this saga, it's completely absurd and petty but there are plenty of stories to tell.