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> In my experience, the teams that choose typescript are usually windows devs that cannot wean themselves off of visual studio due to their dependence upon auto completion and IDE tools.

Well, since VS does auto-completion with JavaScript too, so maybe you're not understanding the whole situation. Some people like TypeScript for its ability to facilitate creation of large projects via addition types, classes, and namespaces, while retaining much of the basic JavaScript syntax.



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