Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by benatkin » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:33 AM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #9

benatkin wrote: post #6

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 was asking opminion.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by trimbo » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:44 AM UTC

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

I've been using it (0.9) on Mac. Not sure what you're referring to.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by maxbrunsfeld » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:50 AM UTC

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

I've been editing typescript using JetBrains webstorm. It works pretty well.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by giulianob » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:51 AM UTC

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

They'll keep making VS the best environment for it but all the tools are open source and written in typescript itself so unlikely it will be Windows only anytime soon.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by jimueller » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:52 AM UTC

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

It's pretty obvious that's their goal.

"...you can develop TypeScript code using the online playground tool or Visual Studio 2012. But this is not it! You can also use Sublime Text, Vim or eMacs as the team has kicked off work on syntax files for these popular editors JavaScript developers love to use. And as the specification is public, anyone can create their own syntax files for other editors as well."

http://msopentech.com/blog/2012/10/01/sublime-text-vi-emacs-...

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by tossmeup » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:54 AM UTC

trimbo wrote: post #12

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

I've been using it (0.9) on Mac. Not sure what you're referring to.

It's just that Micro$oft and people from the evil empire keep making all these good tools and technology. Then, they try to force me to use it by making it available to people. And then they con those people into getting projects done and telling other people that the tools and technology made it easier to do better work. Then they make a bunch of this stuff open source and do all the things that make it so that when I say, "I hate them and their tiles!" it makes me look like a fool... Because they are behaving, many times, exactly the way one would hope a company would given the constantly evolving nature of technology and the marketplace. I mean Ballmer looks like people I don't like.

I bet they didn't use a decent license. I mean why is TypeScript on CODEPLEX??? Oh... Apache License.

Well, I bet you have to install SilverLight and Windoze 8 (worst dis-operating system ever) to download... right, OK, but it's from jerks just trying to sell stuff! I hate what they did to NETSCAPE!!! and they keep on stopping Linux desktop... what? oh right... yeah... I'M NOT CRAZY!!!

Well, I'm using node and... oh they npm?

I have a gnome tattoo. Fuck you. I'm not crazy. -sjvn

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by particlewave » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

jzelinskie wrote: post #3

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?

Yes, using it, large project. TypeScript + Webstorm is very productive.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by deadreturns3 » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:10 AM UTC

Am justing waiting for them to implement "await".

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by Todd » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:13 AM UTC

opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

It's open source and they've had a node.js package for some time. The VS integration is just icing on the cake, if you like that sort of cake. As a side benefit, there are interface definitions for many popular libraries, like jQuery. So you get IDE support for those, with types, where applicable.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:16 AM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #9

benatkin wrote: post #6

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).

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