People seem to have forgotten that MicroSoft was a gigantic threat to our industry, and still is. It owns 98% PCs world wide. What would we think if 98% of gaz stations worldwide where belonging to one company? That would be dangerous, right? Same with MS except it's worse, because PCs are eveyrwhere controlling everything. It's Big Brother in real life. Just imagine one moment how many critical decisions having world wide impact on the life of billions of people are done using Excel? What if Excel was remote controlled?
So, no, sorry, I don't eat that stuff. Bill Gates has built the most dangerous edifice and no amount of charity will save him from the Hell of digital beings.
The issue is that TS 1.8 doesn't support async/await in the browser until v2.0, but a ts -> babel transpile does the job nicely.