Announcing TypeScript 1.0

Post by tkubacki » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:14 AM UTC

untog wrote: post #36

jbm wrote: post #28

Could someone be so kind as to explain why I should consider Typescript over Coffeescript in future projects? I've been using CS for the past year or two, but I'm hearing a lot of buzz around TS for the past few months. It would be really nice to have a better idea as to why it should be best to move now - is it really that much better? (I love the CS tools available on PyCharm; they really made my life easier. That…

One reason (as I see it) is that TypeScript is implementing ES6 features along with the type-specifc stuff, so it's going to end up in a place where it's very compatible with the 'future' of JavaScript. CoffeeScript will always be something quite different. I love it, but that difference makes me nervous. ES6 ought to bring a lot of the features I like about CoffeeScript into JavaScript.

Post by mateuszf » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:31 AM UTC

novaleaf wrote: post #25

paf31 wrote: post #24

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I use Cats IDE on a relatively large project and find it very good.

webstorm is also reasonable, but vs is better.

Post by nightski » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:33 AM UTC

tkubacki wrote: post #41

untog wrote: post #36

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One reason (as I see it) is that TypeScript is implementing ES6 features along with the type-specifc stuff, so it's going to end up in a place where it's very compatible with the 'future' of JavaScript. CoffeeScript will always be something quite different. I love it, but that difference makes me nervous. ES6 ought to bring a lot of the features I like about CoffeeScript into JavaScript.

I don't want to troll here but "very compatible" sounds like MS best days of EEE - Typescript still IS a different lang. Question is what if future Javascript will go in a different direction than todays Typescript ? Typescript main feature is tooling but I would rather go with lang where I'm not second class citizen on non-windows (eg. Dart's editor works on Windows/OSX/Linux)

Post by oscargrouch » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:54 AM UTC

dkarapetyan wrote: post #44

Anders is a really good language designer. Everything this dude touches turns to gold. He was also behind C# and as far as enterprise languages go C# is a joy to work with. TypeScript is the same way. It's all really well thought out and instead of getting in the way the type system actually helps because you can leverage the dynamic aspects of JavaScript during the prototyping phase and then gradually add types as t…

Post by DCoder » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:23 AM UTC

chadzawistowski wrote: post #34

girvo wrote: post #18

Anders is my favourite language designer, ever :) TypeScript is something I'm still trying to get more buy-in from my team, but the issue is the lack of decent autocomplete/static analysis in anything other than Visual Studio. I'm working on that problem myself, actually.

IntelliJ supports TypeScript! http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/typescript-support.htm...

    // function signature
    getNumber(context: any, callback: (result: Number) => void);
    
    // calling that function
    // unfortunately, here the type of num is any
    // unless I specify it manually
    getNumber(..., (num) => { ... });