Announcing TypeScript 2.1

#1

Post by DanRosenwasser » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

Announcing TypeScript 2.1
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

#2

Post by n0us » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

I have been waiting for object rest and spread for ages. Thank you to the maintainers for working hard on this feature.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by ihsw » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

Async/await support for most browsers and node-0.12+ is definitely a welcome feature, callback hell and tripping over promise chains is definitely one of the most painful experience in TS development IMO.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by k__ » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:30 PM UTC

n0us wrote: post #2

I have been waiting for object rest and spread for ages. Thank you to the maintainers for working hard on this feature.

Same here. I already used it exessively in JavaScript to prevent mutations and missed it a bit in TypeScript.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by ng12 » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:31 PM UTC

Hurrah for object spreads! Time to go grepping for calls to _.default and _.extend.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by tjbarbour » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:35 PM UTC

" We spread ourselves thin, but this is the moment you’ve been awaiting – TypeScript 2.1 is here! "

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by msoad » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

We are using async await with 2.1 rc and it works flawlessly. I also love the keyof, with that we can remove tons of "any" types from our code base.

Amazing work TypeScript team! This release has been a lot of work!

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by zdragnar » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

It's interesting to me that all of the initial reactions I've seen to this announcement have been around the introduction of async and object spread, which are available with babel, but the typescript specific features such as mapped types are completely ignored.

I don't really have any particular meaning behind that observation, only that it tickled my funny bone a little bit.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by hashhar » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

Really happy with the development pace. I started using it by contributing to VSCode and was very pleased with the great tooling and sane language and syntactic sugar.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 2.1

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Post by ohstopitu » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

I recently started using TS instead of JS and I've been loving it. I find errors much earlier and while the tooling could be a bit better, I honestly find it less exhausting than keeping up with Babel.