TypeScript for Ethereum Smart Contracts

Hey ETH developers + users--

With the advent of Web3, it's important that we can get as many developers as possible writing on the ETH platform. IMO one of the big elephants in the room is Solidity, and its developer experience.

I see eWasm as a phenomenal mitigation for this problem (allowing effectively any llvm-backed language to participate), but there are most likely still questions around gas-burn and the economic efficiency of real world bytecode.

In the meantime, I've tried to prototype some alternatives.

Lots of folks nowadays love using TypeScript (a typed alternative to JavaScript), and I believe this could help onboard tons of developers.

Since solidity is already close in ideation and syntax, I figured it wouldn't be too hard to write a custom transpilation step from TS -> SOL. In the future, we could produce EVM byte-code directly, or wasm when the time comes.

I've gone ahead and prototyped a subset of this here: https://github.com/jbrower95/tseth

I need ideas, more developers (PL people especially :D), and feedback for this project.

Thanks!