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After quite some consideration I chose to convert my ActionScript3 project to TypeScript. I knew I had to move away from flash for a while, and personally I really prefer to code big framework-like projects with static typing, so I gave it a go and it I have to say it has been really enjoyable. My code looks really neat, and unlike many other comments here, my code is very much targeted at the web and bound to how js normally works. It's just more beautiful and well organised in my opinion. I've been using the WebStorm IDE and the intellisense features are really nice. Getting React to work with typescript was a bit of a hassle, but worked pretty well after some research, just not when I tried to make components that extend other components. Not sure if that will work with this React release, but being able to use plain typescript classes was certainly high on my wishlist, so this makes me really happy.

Sorry yeah wasn't meaning to infer you couldn't write beautiful Web embracing code in TS. However most of the code I've seen using TS, and admittedly its a small sample, was of the other sort so I wasn't sure if that's the way the TS community is pulling.

Our problem with TypeScript is not TypeScript but its community and ecosystem for the most part (I think that's a way I would put it).

It's the first time I heard that, though I admit I'm not really actively involved in any type of TS community. All I've been in contact with are the TS releases and blogpost from the TS development team, for which I can only give credits (quite fast and stable development with good features), and some TS projects and definition files for existing libraries I found on github which were pretty decent and helpful. As naive as this question may be, can you tell me more about what parts of the ecosystem or which community you mean?

The homepage, forums and press releases do seem really focus on Visual Studio. I guess that's understandable given it's an MS product.

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.

Ah yes, true. I've always thaught of it as understandable that they focus on Visual Studio, but I too would much appriciate it if they would push that a bit less. I did try the free version of VS when I started with TS, but I didnt prefer it to webstorm, even though in some small details, the ts support may be slightly better.

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