The Rise of TypeScript?

I have been programming using livescript for about 1 year and love using it. My friend uses typescript and another one who is a novice uses vanilla js.

We all share code and use the npm module system to integrate our various work.

I would hate to see another monolithic be born from the most open ecosystem out there.

Programmers all have different tastes / ideas / etc.

Rather than shoehorn everyone into one system we should build infrastructure that allows diversity.

Its a lot like saying everyone should listen to the same music.

Typescript is awesome, just like how both communism and democracy is awesome. Everything shouldn't be a fight and a zero-sum game.

hopefully Microsoft and angular do not crush the beautiful forest that programmers have created.

As mentioned in the article, the idea of intellitype-style code completion in TypeScript actually excites me more than most other parts of it. I know plenty of people scoff at it, but I love it.