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I find it funny - the first language I learned was ActionScript 3 (built on ECMA 4 proposal) and I become a Flash developer aka laughing stock. I remember I had

by dandare 10y ago

I find it funny - the first language I learned was ActionScript 3 (built on ECMA 4 proposal) and I become a Flash developer aka laughing stock. I remember I had very rough time transitioning to JavaScript because it felt like a stone age compared to ActionScript 3. Then came TS and saved me and dare I say the whole web.

pygy_ 10y ago
Did you know that Microsoft was part of the cabal against ES4, proposing a competing and very modest ES3.1 which became ES5?
- int_19h 10y ago
  MS was on both sides of it. Remember JS.NET? It was veey ES4'ish (for early definitions of ES4, anyway).
  - pygy_ 10y ago
    No, I didn't know about it... Still, the hostility from the "against" side (which also included Yahoo and a pre-Chrome Google) was enough to derail the effort.
jestar_jokin 10y ago
You should also have a look at Haxe, which comes from an ActionScript-inspired syntax, and compiles to JS (and a whole bunch of other languages, including ActionScript). It has even better language features than TypeScript (gotta love compile-time macros), although TypeScript has the benefit of adding features in an attempt to describe existing JavaScript code using types, so the interop with JS libs is easier.