Probably Microsoft want to take over NodeJS ecosystem. They are lobbying to replace v8 engine with their chakra engine for Win32 builds. Read up about the histo

Probably Microsoft want to take over NodeJS ecosystem. They are lobbying to replace v8 engine with their chakra engine for Win32 builds. Read up about the history of the company, it can be very bad if the official NodeJS project switches to chakra for one or all platforms. So it's in probably bad news that Microsoft targets NodeJS even more. And their TypeScript adventure and how they steer/lobby the ES6/7 development in their interest isn't great for JS and WebAssembly. They have a vast interest to port their class based old C++/C# codebase of Office tools and Monaco editor to the web. They could stick with their new delayed lacklustre rather unfinished DotNetCore 1.0 ecosystem. Let's hope Google and others cone to the rescue to help NodeJS. On the other side I really wonder why Google switched to TypeScript for one of their project. Maybe the choose between Facebook and Microsoft and favoured the later because he former is an even bigger competitor in WebFrameworks (React), because they were late to the game?