Unlike Dart, Script#, and GWT, however, TypeScript doesn't discard the syntax of JavaScript. Instead, it extends it, with the result that any JavaScript program is automatically a TypeScript ...

which has its own syntax, TypeScript uses JavaScript's existing syntax—making it easier for programmers who already know JavaScript to learn TypeScript. The other big mover in RedMonk's ratings ...

TypeScript syntax isn't that hard to learn ... In TypeScript, source code is compiled into JavaScript code that is run by the JavaScript runtime. For front-end developers, the JavaScript runtime is a ...

Historians who reflect on JavaScript’s emergence as a dominant programming language in the 21st century may find themselves quoting former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “You go to war ...

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript -- the world's most popular programming language -- that compiles to JavaScript and is aimed at large coding projects. RedMonk recently ranked TypeScript as ...

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the ...

"The idea of this proposal is that JavaScript could carve out a set of syntax for types that engines would entirely ignore, but which tools like TypeScript, Flow, and others could use," he said. "This ...

The export type syntax only provides an export to be used for type contexts and is erased from TypeScript output. TypeScript has used JavaScript’s import syntax to enable reference types.

TypeScript syntax includes several proposed features of Ecmascript 6 (ES6), including classes and modules. TypeScript also provides to JavaScript programmers a system of optional type annotations.