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Re:TypeScript vs. ReasonML by leeter on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:08PM (#20880399)
> The fact that TypeScript wasn't created to solve a big issue internally at Microsoft

AFAIK it was, the issue was the poor quality of Javascript development they were having and their inability to really get good tooling and static analysis. Then it kind of exploded as other people said "That's cool" and they then pushed it out as open source so that if they did need to let it go it wouldn't be totally dead in the water.

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