Given the improvements in ES6, the fact that the JS community in general is so active, and the fact that I've seen some truly awful TS code (mainly where the devs want to pretend the web doesn't exist) I've been put off exploring TS too far much (beyond looking at the basic language features).
I'm not sure if I should be rethinking though?
I agree. Typescript is an impressive project, but most of the Typescript code I see looks more like C# or Java than Javascript. Sadly, it seems to have been created to accommodate that kind of approach.
But there's a lot to be said for strong and static typing when dealing with large projects.
That's why I'm hopeful for Flow, Facebook's new project to add static typing to Javascript:
Anyway totally agree on the typing angle, navigation/refactoring/discover-ability aspects are useful and I loved the implicit interface approach in Dart. However I wonder whether some of those features won't be added to JS over time (where possible in such a dynamic language). Ta for link to flow, will give it a look thanks.
There are a couple of links to editor syntax files and a link to WebStorm but they're a bit of an after thought.
I keep expecting the homepage update "any day now" but so far I've only really seen VS mentioned as a default environment.