Many people like myself like static typing and don't particularly care for "traditional OO". I wouldn't put them all in the same bag.

Heljsberg himself (the creator of TypeScript) likes functional programming a lot and brings the best features to his languages.

I haven't tried TypeScript yet, but I look forward to it :)

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2443-anders-hejlsberg-on-funct...

I put it in because TS added 'class' to the language