Interesting he omits Flow from his very carefully chosen "Typescript won" arguments.
This whole article has a very "Wow, all other languages except for the one I've invested time in really suck!" feel to it. The arguments presented are shallow at best, rely on short-term data, mostly just popular trends of what people are talking about/searching for.
There's not any empirical evidence that I've seen in this article that suggests any language is better than any other language.
TypeScript seems to be rather big for MS. But FB mostly pumps money in Babel and React at the moment...