Microsoft has released the TypeScript 6.0 beta, marking the end of an era. This will be the final version built on JavaScript, as TypeScript 7.0 shifts to ...

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TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...

The rewrite of TypeScript in Go is not actually a rewrite, but a 1:1 port of the existing source code. In this way, the development team wants to ensure that the existing features are also available ...

The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript. Babel, a ...

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 ...