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Am justing waiting for them to implement "await".
Anders talks about that problem in this video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/9-006
I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?
My project isn't huge, but larger than it could have been using idiomatic javascript. The scoping with modules and the typing really helped since I'm familiar with C# and having "everything light up" in the IDE. Saved a ton of time letting a compiler catch things instead of writing tests. I tried coffee script, but found the copy/paste option for javascript that I have already written won me over.
I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?
I'm a big fan of TypeScript's approach, which gives you the best of both worlds. Start with fully dynamic code to explore the problem space, then add more static guarantees as you firm up your design.
I haven't had occasion to write a big web app recently, but I'm itching to find one so I can put TypeScript through its paces.
Am justing waiting for them to implement "await".
edit: just the points
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you concerned about this? I didn't see anything in the announcement that would suggest it.
Cause it makes it windows only. EDIT: to add, I like the idea of typescript (it's a much smaller step than compared to something like Dart). But their tooling is all around Visual Studio, which ties you to Windows. I don't dislike Windows, but I want my development tools to be cross platform (which is why I like Sublime Text, Eclipse, and similar tools).
I know that there are definition files for it [1] (and many other popular libraries), but unfortunately I haven't had the time to check out their quality.
[1] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/a...
I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?
The largest project I know using it from what anders has mentioned is xbox music, which is about half a million lines of typescript. In addition the IE11 debugger also is written in typescript.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/10/24/typescript...