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If it makes you feel a bit better, think of it this way: Typescript is open-sourced not to just get the public free-access to it, but also for the public to provide feedback and improvements. Without outside devs to report bugs, TS would be living [ and dying ] in its own bubble.
This is almost(tm) the same tactic Apple uses for Darwin by making use of netBSD's open source nature.
Specifically, do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone?
I'm not sure you are aware, but Microsoft created TypeScript.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-1-0/
Without Microsoft, TypeScript would not exist.
I'm not concerned about the Microsoft's involvement. TypeScript shows an immature tooling ecosystem even on its own merits.
I posted some of my concerns earlier, along with a basic problem challenge (that I can easily do in many other languages) that nobody managed to solve: https://programming.dev/comment/2734178
