Comment by WorldMaker

> you lose things like 'import _ from "lodash", which requires further setup (import maps) or is impractical in larger projects.

I think importmaps are reasonably practical even for larger projects today. I know Firefox supporting multiple importmaps in the same HTML is still a wishlist item for some to avoid more scenarios that need an importmap compile step in very large projects, but importmaps are relatively easy to automate (it's just JSON wrapped in a script tag; merging them can be just a matter of a couple Object.assign calls or object spread notation; the multiple importmaps standard that Firefox is behind on is just that, a basic Object.assign merge).

> The real reason however is that TS is just a language, not part of any standard

Right, which is why the TC-39 (committee that owns JS) proposal for "erasable syntax" for "type annotations" isn't Typescript-specific and isn't a pure superset of Typescript syntax. The node implementation of erasable syntax doesn't use the Typescript compiler and doesn't support the full Typescript syntax and is relatively close to the TC-39 proposal.

> not just going to support random languages headed by corporations (Microsoft) and that are not community projects.

Nitpicking somewhat, but Typescript has been open source since it was publicly launched and a fair enough chunk over the years of contributors aren't/haven't been Microsoft employees. It's fairly reasonable to say it is a community project. I appreciate the point that it is still seen as a specific-vendor solution and the point of separating the JS language standard proposal from being "just do what Microsoft decides is right for Typescript" (as TC-39 is trying to do), but to be fair to Typescript, it is a also bit wilder and more open than that "just a Microsoft solution" at this point (and arguably also for most of its history).