For all JavaScript's prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don't like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce ...

Then two decades later, Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript ... other modern features along with static and dynamic typing. It allows comments, variables, functions ...

you can gradually add TypeScript features to your existing JavaScript code rather than having to rewrite everything from scratch in a new language; Bhekani Khumalo has a great blog post showing ...

Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features ... you can write TypeScript function overload signatures. That’s an important feature JavaScript lacks. Finally, you should add types to your ...

Microsoft has officially released the latest version of its JavaScript ... whereas the new decorators can be used without. Also new in TypeScript 5.0 is that developers can add a “const ...

Microsoft's TypeScript ... many new features dealing with project references, a new unknown type and more. The open source programming language is primarily developed and maintained by Microsoft, ...

Could JavaScript evolve to support a native type system—without needing TypeScript? A new proposal from the TypeScript team, submitted to ECMAScript’s TC39 committee, suggests exactly that. It’s ...

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 ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming ... has a syntax that is very similar to JavaScript but adds features, such as optional static typing ...

Functions in TypeScript aren't handled the way you'd expect, based on any other language (including JavaScript). Fortunately ... function and store its results in FirstNameOther, I have to add the ...