Well, to be fair, saying a JS code-slave (of which I am one) really likes TypeScript is like saying a malnourished man lost for a month in Death Valley sustaining only on dead maggots and his own urine really likes dining at the Home Town Buffet. He would already have been overjoyed with some coffee and harmony, yet the gods decided to give him a real meal.

You won't find a single Javascript engineer who hasn't been tortured by "Undefined is not a function" or worse on a daily basis, so something that promises to liberate us from this evil is always appreciated.

The second half of the article sounds like a sales pitch.

It would have been nice to see some thoughtful analysis based on the deltas of the languages from those rankings over 2014. All of those rankings are biased in their own ways, hence all of them being wildly different, but I think looking at how languages change across them paints an interesting picture.