Luke Hoban [MS], Author at TypeScript

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Announcing TypeScript 1.6 Beta: React/JSX, better error checking, and more

September 2nd, 2015

Today, we’re making a beta of the upcoming TypeScript 1.6 available. There are a bunch of new features coming in the 1.6 release, and we wanted to give you a preview of these features and time to give us feedback. You can get this for Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, NPM, and source. React/JSX support One of the key ...

The TypeScript Team is Hiring!

July 13th, 2015

The TypeScript team is hiring! We’ve been growing, and we have lots of exciting plans ahead. Here are some of the things you’ll do as part of the TypeScript team: Work on the compiler – Every compiled language needs a compiler, and TypeScript has a good one. As we add language features and continue to align with...

Developing in TypeScript on a Mac with Sublime

June 5th, 2015

Within the TypeScript team, many of us have Macs that we use for development. We’ve also heard from some of you that you’d like to use your OS X machines to build TypeScript projects. So recently, we’ve been focusing on building a natural and rich developer toolset for Mac and Linux fans. Starting with TypeScript 1.5, ...

Using TypeScript in Visual Studio Code

April 30th, 2015

With the recent announcement of Visual Studio Code, there have been a lot of questions about how to get started writing TypeScript. In this quickstart, we’ll create a simple TypeScript project. Out of the box, Visual Studio Code supports TypeScript 1.5 beta and using either the node or Visual Studio command-line compilers. &...

Announcing TypeScript 1.5 Alpha

March 27th, 2015

Today we’re announcing TypeScript 1.5 Alpha, the first preview of the TypeScript 1.5 release. This release shows off many of the features that will be in the final TypeScript 1.5 release. In the alpha release, you’ll be able to use three new capabilities of the TypeScript tools: a richer ES6 experience, decorators, and ...

Angular 2: Built on TypeScript

March 5th, 2015

We're excited to unveil the result of a months-long partnership with the Angular team. This partnership has been very productive and rewarding experience for us, and as part of this collaboration, we're happy to announce that Angular 2 will now be built with TypeScript. We're looking forward to seeing what people will be able to do with ...

Announcing TypeScript 1.4

January 16th, 2015

Today we're happy to announce TypeScript 1.4. With TypeScript 1.4, we've continued to build new features that help you work with more JavaScript patterns, create richer typings, and use new ES6 features. You can try these improvements out as part of Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, Visual Studio 2013, NPM, and as source. Type System Improvements Union...

Announcing TypeScript 1.3

November 12th, 2014

We’re happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 1.3. TypeScript 1.3 includes two new features in the language and a new language service for Visual Studio 2015 that is built on the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), Visual Studio's new language service that provides rich Intellisense. Roslyn makes it much easier ...

Announcing TypeScript 1.1 CTP

October 6th, 2014

Today, we’re making TypeScript 1.1 CTP immediately available for Visual Studio “14” CTP4, Visual Studio 2013, npm, and as a source release. 1.1 CTP is the first release of TypeScript to include the new compiler core redesigned to both perform better and lay the groundwork for future language features. You can...

Working on TypeScript 0.9: Generics, Overload on Constants and Compiler Performance

March 25th, 2013

The upcoming TypeScript 0.9 release will represent the most significant changes to TypeScript since the first public release last October, bringing highly requested new language features as well as a significant re-design of the TypeScript compiler. In this post, we’ll give a first quick look at a few of the top investments for the 0.9 ...

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