Looking at the Internet Archive for typescriptlang.org, most (but not all) of their original samples are doing something in a browser[0], so while it definitely

Looking at the Internet Archive for typescriptlang.org, most (but not all) of their original samples are doing something in a browser[0], so while it definitely became popular with backend developers, I don't know if I would go so far as to say it was created for non-frontend developers who were forced to deal with the frontend. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20121004030106/http://www.typescriptlang.org/samples https://web.archive.org/web/20121004030106/http://www.typesc...