Comment by rty32

2 years ago

To be honest, I think it is true. They declared "issue bankruptcy" in one of they repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/issues/2804

Contrary to many people's perception, Microsoft is one of the biggest contributors to open source, whether for projects they "own" like TypeScript or VSCode, or other common projects like Linux. The amount of users and bugs/feature requests etc don't match headcounts available at Microsoft.