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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.

*not necessarily bad, d’oh

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.