A few reasons. It's syntax is easy to learn, and it opens the door to both client and server side development. You have to know it to do anything on client side, once you learn that much why not learn Node.js?
It's drawbacks are well documented in "Javascript, the good parts". Typescript will help improve it, but it will never help prevent programmer mistakes anywhere near as well as Swift (for example). But no language is perfect.
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A few reasons. It's syntax is easy to learn, and it opens the door to both client and server side development. You have to know it to do anything on client side, once you learn that much why not learn Node.js?
It's drawbacks are well documented in "Javascript, the good parts". Typescript will help improve it, but it will never help prevent programmer mistakes anywhere near as well as Swift (for example). But no language is perfect.