[xnacly]

Well it does suck for a huge list of reasons but specifically disqualifying for being the lingua franca would be it being controlled by microsoft

[seabrookmx]

It's open source. If Microsoft did anything weird it would be immediately forked ala. terraform, ElasticSearch etc.

There's so much momentum behind it from the front-end community alone it's not going anywhere.

IMO using Typescript sucks because of the node ecosystem/npm. The language itself is passable.