> MS has also been treating JavaScript as a 1st class citizen on Windows Eh what now? The ActiveSctipt host for JScript (for shell and Classic ASP scripting)

> MS has also been treating JavaScript as a 1st class citizen on Windows Eh what now? The ActiveSctipt host for JScript (for shell and Classic ASP scripting) hasn’t been updated since Windows 2000, and for shell scripting in-general Microsoft has been (“was” at this point?) pushing PowerShell since its demo at PDC 2003. WinJS for Windows 8 was a huge waste of money for the company that people always seem to forget. And their Chakra JS engine is effectively now retired given Chromium+V8 replaced EdgeHTML earlier this year. The only places Microsoft has been using JS are for their current set of Electron-based applications (VS Code, Skype, MS Teams, Azure Storage Explorer, etc). TypeScript is nice and all (and I really love it and I hope it brings algebraic typing and structural typing to more languages) but it’s only popular because Google, of all people, adopted it for Angular.