It's interesting how TypeScript beat Flow in terms of popularity, and yet everyone is now calling for TypeScript to be more like Flow (to focus on plain type ch

It's interesting how TypeScript beat Flow in terms of popularity, and yet everyone is now calling for TypeScript to be more like Flow (to focus on plain type checking instead of transpilation; just strip out the type annotations)... And most of those people don't even know about the existence of Flow. The sad thing about the tech sector is that you can be right about something and yet still lose the hype-wagon popularity contest. Then your competitor copies your original idea... The exact same idea which they had previously claimed was inferior. It seems that the idea was inferior purely on the basis that it wasn't their idea. As soon as they've appropriated the idea, suddenly it's the best idea in the world.