I am trying desperately to understand why TS. How does lumping in the baggage of Java/C# onto a functional language like JS make it better? We have to wait for

I am trying desperately to understand why TS. How does lumping in the baggage of Java/C# onto a functional language like JS make it better? We have to wait for the previous generation to retire or die before we can get critical mass on the next idea. - Douglas Crockford