> You really should just not assume things

And yet you follow this up by making assumptions about the motivations behind TS. Anders has mentioned that TS was purely motivated by internal MS teams struggling with huge JS codebases, nothing to do with C# but clearly his work on other languages would have influenced how he approached designing the language.

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austinthetaco 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They have said time and time again it was because their C# team was writing frontend code in a huge codebase and wanted similar support.

	▲	tomnipotent 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No they haven't. It's been said time and time again that their teams were struggling with large JS code bases for Bing Maps and O365 web apps.