Nearly eight years ago Microsoft released the first public build, 0.8.1, of TypeScript, in November 2012. Since then it’s been used on many large-scale Web applications and in many apps running ...

After initial internal Microsoft resistance, open-source TypeScript is now a go-to language for building web apps.

Type stripping allows Node.js developers to run TypeScript without source maps or additional configuration, speeding up the development process.

Microsoft also updates Java for VS Code with performance improvements to its IntelliSense code-competition tool.

A Stripe team of four engineers migrated the code to TypeScript in just one year, Andrew Lunny, a staff software engineer, told Insider.

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 language ...

Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.

The January 2018 update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor incorporates the new TypeScript 2.7.1 edition, allowing for quicker fixing of errors in TypeScript and even regular JavaScript files.