> the main reason is that Microsoft controls it - in contrast with say Go or Rust where it's controlled by a foundation To my knowledge, and according to the w

> the main reason is that Microsoft controls it - in contrast with say Go or Rust where it's controlled by a foundation To my knowledge, and according to the website, Go is effectively entirely controlled by Google, not a foundation. I don’t have anything to do with web development (and detest web applications and the idea of browsers as an application runtime) but use TypeScript elsewhere - any comparison to coffeescript seems misplaced. TS at this point is simply far too popular and widely used industry-wide to disappear, whereas coffeescript was always niche.