Yes, amazing language - I recall having a look at it in 2013 when I was scrambling for a replacement for Flash (also amazing platform). Shame it doesn't solve the problem at hand.

Hardly anyone cares TypeScript isn't perfect when they can migrate their (or anyone else's) terrible, but business-critial JS library to TS and continue development without skipping a beat.

For the same reason ReasonML took years to overtake fartscroll.js in the number of stars on GitHub.

A huge part of TS's complexity is there so that library authors can describe some exotic behaviours seen normally only in dynamically-typed languages. When you're writing an app you don't need the vast majority of those features. Personally I regret every usage of `infer` in application code.

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Timon3 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> For the same reason ReasonML took years to overtake fartscroll.js in the number of stars on GitHub.

Wow, that's a fascinating statistic! Certainly puts the popularity delta into a different light.

On a separate note, the fartscroll.js demo page[0] no longer works since code.onion.com is no longer accessible. Truly disappointing. Luckily their release zip contains an example.html!

[0]: https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

	▲	Tade0 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, it was actually slightly less than two years: https://www.star-history.com/#theonion/fartscroll.js&reasonm... I remember the hype back when it was released, though. You don't hear much about it any more.