[bdcravens]

Look at the list of contributors to the project (both in terms of numbers of committers and commits). Overwhelmingly Microsoft employees. Until it gains some serious momentum where it could successfully be forked and seriously maintained by the open source community at large, at this point it's a Microsoft product, and you have no choice but to trust their support and openness, so you can't hand wave away the trust issue as "Tarot card thinking".

[mikerichards]

Uhhh...lots of Microsoft employees working on Typescript is a good thing. Pulling the old, "We're happy to leave this in "the community's" hands would be a bad thing for obvious reasons.

Seriously, stop the FUD

[bdcravens]

You're right, no open source projects that weren't developed in the majority by a single large corporate benefactor have ever succeeded. We can trust those corporations: they have our best interests at heart. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my successful career building applications for the Google Glass.