TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development

Post by jonknee » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

camus wrote: post #57

arturadib wrote: post #49

All of these compile-to-JS efforts are great, and as much as I love things like CoffeeScript I have to say I definitely worry about language fragmentation. JavaScript is full of flaws, but its monopoly in the browser space has brought about one intriguing and welcome side-effect: a VERY efficient market for both employers and employees. It's easy to overlook how important this common denominator has been for everyone…

Javascript is dreadfull , and its flaws are counter productive and intolerable. It has good things like closures and first class functions , and that's it. Most of js developpers hate javascript , but are forced to work with it. So they dont care what they use as client language provided it gets the job done. few people cares about Javascript. most of the devs hate it. But the browser as dev plateform is a fact.

Post by lazugod » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

cbaleanu wrote: post #51

untog wrote: post #32

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You lost me at "M$". I'd like to think that HN's level of discussion is above that.

Nonetheless, interesting disclaimer text spotted there. Raises a good question... would that text be there because somebody in the industry analyzes your code?

Post by Kafka » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:42 PM UTC

wingspan wrote: post #53

untog wrote: post #37

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I like the shortened function form. I played around with CS for a while before going back to JS, but I do miss being able to do something like: var names = people.map((p) -> return p.name); (or something along those lines). Funnily enough, it reminds me of C#'s LINQ: var names = people.Select(p => p.name);

I've written a LINQ style library for TypeScript that allows you to write something like this: from([1,2,3]).select(n => n * n).where(n >=2).toArray() which outputs [4, 9] Hoping to open source it soon. Edit: typo, n * 2 should have been n * n, sorry for the confusion

Post by caseyohara » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #9

cek wrote: post #4

Say what you want about whether this is a good idea or not, it is clear at least part of MS is really serious about open source. * TypeScript is under the Apache 2.0 license [1] * Source is available via git on Codeplex [2] * Installation is as easy as npm install -g typescript [3] Extra bonus coolness: They've provided an online playground like jsfiddle! [4]. [1] http://typescript.codeplex.com/license [2] http://typ…

Also cool: in addition to the expected Visual Studio support, they've also provided support for Sublime Text, Emacs, and Vim. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/10/01/...

Post by tlack » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

baltcode wrote: post #63

untog wrote: post #37

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I like the shortened function form. I played around with CS for a while before going back to JS, but I do miss being able to do something like: var names = people.map((p) -> return p.name); (or something along those lines). Funnily enough, it reminds me of C#'s LINQ: var names = people.Select(p => p.name);

It's actually even shorter: names = people.map((p) -> p.name)