TypeScript

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

March 25, 2013 Mar 25, 2013 03/25/13

Luke Hoban [MS]

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 ...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.3

February 27, 2013 Feb 27, 2013 02/27/13

Jonathan Turner [MS]

Today, we're happy to announce the 0.8.3 preview release of TypeScript.  This release adds incremental polish and bugfixes to the TypeScript compiler, language service, and Visual Studio plugin.  Compiler Improvements In the 0.8.3 preview release, we fixed a few key issues that improve compiler correctness and performance, ...

Trying the Latest TypeScript Build

January 29, 2013 Jan 29, 2013 01/29/13

Ryan Cavanaugh

Starting with release 0.8.2.0, you can now update the TypeScript language services file, the compiled JavaScript that powers most of the TypeScript editor features in Visual Studio. This includes tasks like error reporting, compile-on-save, renaming, go to definition, completion lists, signature help, and others. By updating your TypeScript ...

Walkthrough: Interfaces

January 24, 2013 Jan 24, 2013 01/24/13

Ryan Cavanaugh

When we talk about a type in TypeScript, we mean a collection of things that you can do with a variable (or expression). You might be able to read or write a given property, call a function, use the expression as a constructor, or index into the object. Some objects (like Date) in JavaScript can do nearly all of those! In TypeScript, ...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.2

January 21, 2013 Jan 21, 2013 01/21/13

Jonathan Turner [MS]

We’re happy to announce the 0.8.2 preview release of TypeScript.  This release has been focused on  addressing key usability feedback and filling in tooling experiences.  Along the way, we’ve also incorporated some of the highest-rated feature requests and bugfixes. JSDoc Support Being able to see API documentation ...

Working on 0.8.2

January 15, 2013 Jan 15, 2013 01/15/13

Jonathan Turner [MS]

We’ve recently branched for the upcoming 0.8.2 release of TypeScript.  Before we talk about what’s new, we wanted to talk a bit about the engineering process that goes into making a release.Going forward, TypeScript development will happen across three types of branches.  Our current two branches of 'master' and 'develop...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1.1

December 5, 2012 Dec 5, 2012 12/5/12

Jonathan Turner [MS]

Since releasing TypeScript 0.8.1 a few weeks ago, we have heard a few reports of issues blocking the usage of source-map based debugging.  To address these, today, we’ve made available TypeScript 0.8.1.1, a bugfix release of 0.8.1.  This preview focuses on further refining the debugging experience and addressing rough edges in ...

Congratulations to Fuse Labs on the New Socl!

December 4, 2012 Dec 4, 2012 12/4/12

Jonathan Turner [MS]

Congratulations to Fuse Labs on releasing the new version of Socl!  Fuse Labs was an early supporter of TypeScript, and they played a key role in helping to shape TypeScript into a language for web development at scale.  It's been great to see So.cl grow and use TypeScript to rapidly prototype and build the new site.When you're ...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1

November 15, 2012 Nov 15, 2012 11/15/12

Luke Hoban [MS]

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1 We released the first public preview of TypeScript last month, and have been excited to see the great reaction from the developer community.  Since the preview, we’ve seen an influx of suggestions and bug reports, integration into various build and testing tools, and declare files for a variety of ...