I am pleased to hear! One of the goals of the blog post was to convince people to give a second thought for the great tool.

It is fantastic - so glad you posted. On the transpilation thing; Babel still has a total use case. TypeScript doesn't provide es6 APIs such as Map / Promise / Array.find etc I output es6 from my TypeScript and pipe that into Babel to get the new APIs and to do transpilation. Works great. (There's a number of ways to do it; I use WebPack with ts-loader and babel-loader which rocks.)