For developers with a Java background, picking up TypeScript as an additional language would be arguably easier than learning Ruby or Python. The ability to use the latest standards even before they are fully supported, and good tooling support along with type safety, makes it a compelling choice for development. VS Code is a great tool which has built-in features and many extensions, making developers very productive. VS Code is not the only choice as there are other IDEs which also provide good support for using TypeScript, such as Eclipse, NetBeans, Sublime Text, Webstorm, and so on.
Type inference is a very powerful mechanism, through which TypeScript offers static type checking. The need to write large scale client-side applications is not easy using traditional JavaScript, but TypeScript helps bridge this gap by bringing high-level language features to it. We have...