US analytics startup Heap announced five years ago that it was saying goodbye to CoffeeScript and moving the front end of its web app to Microsoft's TypeScript 'superset' of the JavaScript programming ...

Microsoft's programming language TypeScript has become one of the most popular languages among developers, at least according to a report published by the analyst firm RedMonk this week. TypeScript ...

TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript programming language developed by Microsoft for creating complex applications, is now a full-fledged member of the company’s flagship Visual Studio integrated ...

“There’s a rumor going around that Civet is the new CoffeeScript but maybe that’s a good thing. CoffeeScript brought classes, destructuring, async/await, arrow functions, rest parameters, and more to ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...

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The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript.

TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today. JavaScript poses certain challenges when ...

TypeScript is designed to make JavaScript development scalable, something Microsoft clearly needs if it's to use JavaScript in its own work. In my September 2012 column, "JavaScript Diplomacy", I ...

TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript programming language developed by Microsoft for creating complex applications, is now a full-fledged member of the company’s flagship Visual Studio integrated ...