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TypeScript 0.9 released

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Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by mseepgood »

nailer wrote: post #15

I saw the original announcement of Typescript at JSconf EU last year. It was an interesting moment: everyone was expecting another Dart, or less (there's a sea of Macs and most professional JS devs experience of Microsoft is IE) but stayed to listen to the presentation out of respect for the creator, who also made Delphi and C#. Pretty much everyone came out impressed. Typescript is just JS with type hints, and neat…

> It works on Linux/Mac and SublimeText

A programming language works with a text editor? Wow!

Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by ixtraz »

mseepgood wrote: post #21
nailer wrote: post #15

I saw the original announcement of Typescript at JSconf EU last year. It was an interesting moment: everyone was expecting another Dart, or less (there's a sea of Macs and most professional JS devs experience of Microsoft is IE) but stayed to listen to the presentation out of respect for the creator, who also made Delphi and C#. Pretty much everyone came out impressed. Typescript is just JS with type hints, and neat…

> It works on Linux/Mac and SublimeText A programming language works with a text editor? Wow!

Nope.

It is running on Linux/Mac/Windows (node.js module).

And already has support in all major IDE (Visual Studio, IntelliJ) and text editors (Sublime, Emacs, ..)

Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by [deleted] »

ixtraz wrote: post #16
nailer wrote: post #15

I saw the original announcement of Typescript at JSconf EU last year. It was an interesting moment: everyone was expecting another Dart, or less (there's a sea of Macs and most professional JS devs experience of Microsoft is IE) but stayed to listen to the presentation out of respect for the creator, who also made Delphi and C#. Pretty much everyone came out impressed. Typescript is just JS with type hints, and neat…

It seems to be very close to CoffeeScript, but without this ugly Ruby syntax (for me).

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Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by DonnyV »

I've been burned way too many times with Microsoft and there technology. I suggest that no one build any long lasting apps with this. They will dump it when something new and shiny comes along. Unless its based on C# or uses Visual Studio don't use it.

Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by egonschiele »

DonnyV wrote: post #27

I've been burned way too many times with Microsoft and there technology. I suggest that no one build any long lasting apps with this. They will dump it when something new and shiny comes along. Unless its based on C# or uses Visual Studio don't use it.

Ouch. Can you give me some examples? A lot of companies have this issue: Google and Apple both dump tech left and right. If it's open source software and it's popular, though, there's a good chance the community will make sure it sticks around.

Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by pjmlp »

DonnyV wrote: post #27

I've been burned way too many times with Microsoft and there technology. I suggest that no one build any long lasting apps with this. They will dump it when something new and shiny comes along. Unless its based on C# or uses Visual Studio don't use it.

Microsoft is no different than any other commercial vendor in terms of tooling.

Re: TypeScript 0.9 released

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Post by marshray »

DonnyV wrote: post #27

I've been burned way too many times with Microsoft and there technology. I suggest that no one build any long lasting apps with this. They will dump it when something new and shiny comes along. Unless its based on C# or uses Visual Studio don't use it.

I now work at Microsoft, but was previously a long time developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (primarily C++). I would be the last guy to disagree with your experience and I am telling everyone who will listen internally what it was like to be on the outside.

But the Typescript project has some things going for it:

1. It's open source.

2. It's closely aligned with EC6, the upcoming Javascript standard.

3. It's compatible with existing Javascript libraries.

4. It's useful as it is, to add type checking to Javascript. It doesn't require a massive growing ecosystem to remain viable.

5. The compiler outputs standard idiomatic Javascript, which you could take and run with if you no longer wanted Typescript.

And, yes, there's a Visual Studio plugin for it if that's your cup of tea.

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