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I personally skipped Coffescript, Javascript Generators and Angular.

And none of them passed the test of time.

So I think I made the right call by not adopting them super early.

I think I'm going to do the same with Typescript. Hopefully static typing will be adopted by ES.Next and then I'll port my programs to it.

Er, JS generators definitely did pass the test of time and are now part of modern JS.

In fact, they are how async / await is implemented.

With async/await there's not much of a case for their use anymore, though

The regular generator use (return a lazily-evaluated iterator) still exists.

I wonder what are the chances of Typescript becoming (part of) ES.Next. It joins with plain JS as seamlessly as possible.

See this thread: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/es8-proposal-optional-static-typ... Note that things have moved a bit, and we're now only a few standing proposals away from being able to properly infer the challenging functions mentioned there.