Today we're excited to roll out our beta release of TypeScript 2.0. If you're not familiar with TypeScript yet, you can start learning it today on our website. To get your hands on the beta, you can download TypeScript 2.0 Beta for Visual Studio 2015 (which will require VS 2015 Update 3), or just run This release includes plenty of new features...

Declaration files ( files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we've known there was room for improvement. As we get closer to TypeScript 2.0, we're very excited to show off a sneak peak of our plan to simplify things. Getting type declarations in TypeScript 2.0...

One of the goals of TypeScript has always been to make writing JavaScript projects a clean, easy, and simple process. We're always looking at where things could be improved and listening to the community to get ideas on how to do this better. You may've recently heard the term "JavaScript fatigue" thrown around to describe the feeling of starting ...