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From what I've seen, yes. I'm a big fan of ES6 and I haven't been a fan of typed languages for a long time but I'm liking using TypeScript. So are my coworkers

• dak1 8y ago
  Since we all tend to live in bubbles to some extent, do we have any numbers to back this up (like, # of repos/commits in each language on GitHub, or questions on StackOverflow)? I tend to view TypeScript similar to CoffeeScript — it brings to JavaScript some features from other languages that are convenient and preferred by a subset of frontend developers. It allows for experimentation in the language, and helps inform TC39 proposals. In time, I suspect support will coalesce around a specific TC39 process proposal to add type support, it will graduate to stage 3 or 4, get integrated into browsers and Babel, and enthusiasm around TypeScript will wane.
  • dangoor 8y ago
    A flexible type system like that of TypeScript is pretty big and complex. It would take considerable time and effort to get that through TC39, I think. It could happen, but seems far off to me. For data, 46% of npm's survey respondents used TypeScript: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/180868064080/this-year-in-javascript-2018-in-review-and-npms https://blog.npmjs.org/post/180868064080/this-year-in-javasc...