We've been building a large scale application in Typescript for about 6 months and it is great. These new features in 0.9 are awesome.
TypeScript 0.9 released
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Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#12This is good work! I hope they make an update to Visual Studio that supports all source maps, not just those generated by the TypeScript compiler.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#13For node.js developers:
If you don't want to recompile it every time, you could just use better-require module: https://github.com/olalonde/better-require
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#14For node.js developers: If you don't want to recompile it every time, you could just use better-require module: https://github.com/olalonde/better-require
Or if you want to do it automatically, you could use Mimosa.js as well (http://mimosajs.com/)
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#15I 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 warnings if you send a function something which its signature doesn't expect.
You can make a JS project a Typescript one immediately, adding type hints as you go, which for large projects is damn useful. The output, however, is pure regular old JS.
It's just like a CSS preprocessor, but for JS - transparently adding some optional awesomeness.
It works on Linux/Mac and SublimeText (albeit you don't get all the VS Intellisense stuff IIRC) too. I'm looking forward to trying it on a new project.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#16I 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).
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#17I 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…
Typescript is in my peripheral vision so far but that really makes me want to look into it properly.
How do you think does it fit in with ES6? I feel like we're coming to a point in time where there should be a major shift in how we write javascript in a modern way -- so far my thought process has been that Coffescript is a nice stopgap before ES6 and the dust has almost settled enough to write ES6 first sorta..
Bit of a ramble. Interesting times.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#18I 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…
Typescript is in my peripheral vision so far but that really makes me want to look into it properly. How do you think does it fit in with ES6? I feel like we're coming to a point in time where there should be a major shift in how we write javascript in a modern way -- so far my thought process has been that Coffescript is a nice stopgap before ES6 and the dust has almost settled enough to write ES6 first sorta.. Bit…
They are aiming to bring ES6 into today development so they looks into ES6 specs very often.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#19Typescript is closely integrated with Node.js at this point.
So there's this related open source project seeking to optimize the performance of Node.js apps running on IIS and hosting them on Azure. https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki We've seen some interesting performance gains by supplanting Node.js's HTTP implementation with the in-kernel HTTP stack, http.sys. http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/08/the-httpsys-stack-for-node...
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft. I personally found this interesting.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typescript is in my peripheral vision so far but that really makes me want to look into it properly. How do you think does it fit in with ES6? I feel like we're coming to a point in time where there should be a major shift in how we write javascript in a modern way -- so far my thought process has been that Coffescript is a nice stopgap before ES6 and the dust has almost settled enough to write ES6 first sorta.. Bit…
They are aiming to bring ES6 into today development so they looks into ES6 specs very often.
Yes, when the team is interviewed they consistently say that, where there is overlap, Typescript will adapt to follow ES6 standards once agreed upon.