I like your take but - not that this was important to TypeScript - JavaScript was literally the assembly language of the web (asm.js) until WASM came along. The

I like your take but - not that this was important to TypeScript - JavaScript was literally the assembly language of the web (asm.js) until WASM came along. There was no other target that TypeScript could compile to. I guess that’s why TypeScript simply added types to JS, rather than being a wholly new language, which in turn made it compatible and familiar to potential adopters. It also solved a big problem caused by the growing size of client code bases. All of that said - this train of thought lead me to discover AssemblyScript! https://www.assemblyscript.org/ https://www.assemblyscript.org/