Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring ...

One way to get started with TypeScript annotations is by adding them to function signatures and return types. Here’s a JavaScript function with no type annotations; it’s a way to generate a ...

Perhaps not by accident, TypeScript's type annotations are quite similar to those suggested for ECMAScript 4. In spite of this abundance of options, most developers stick with plain old JavaScript.

The company is supporting and collaborating on an initial Stage 0 proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript, titled "ECMAScript proposal: Types as Comments." It reads: This ...

YC-backed Omniref gave its code annotation and reference platform a big boost this week with the addition of support for JavaScript, the popular programming language used to make interactive ...