> I might even go as far as putting on a "tin foil hat" and state that Typescript is a trick to lock you into their proprietary ecosystem of expensive tools tha

> I might even go as far as putting on a "tin foil hat" and state that Typescript is a trick to lock you into their proprietary ecosystem of expensive tools that everyone have to buy into just to communicate with you once you are locked in. https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript is uh... right there. Check the license. Visual Studio code runs Textmate snippets and has a very sublime-like extension system. There is no vendor lock in.