[mananaysiempre]

It’s advertised as that, and it’s a cool project, but while it’s definitely a statically typed language that reuses TypeScript syntax, it’s not clear to me just what subset of the actual TypeScript type system is supported. That’s necessarily bad—TypeScript itself is very unclear about what its type system actually is. I just think the tagline is misleading.

[eyelidlessness]

Probably a better way to think about AssemblyScript is first as a DSL for WASM, and second as providing a subset of TS syntax and authoring semantics to achieve that. The type system is closer to TS than the syntax and semantics. At least that was my experience when I explored it some time back.

[saghm]

The tagline on the site seems to be " TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly", which seems pretty clear to me that it's not pretending to be a strict subset or anything.

[mananaysiempre]

*not necessarily bad, d’oh