Today we’re excited to release the beta of the next major milestone in the TypeScript programming language: TypeScript 4.0.<\/p>\n
This beta takes us on our first step into TypeScript 4.0, and while it brings a new major version, don’t fret – there are no substantially larger breaking changes than usual. Our philosophy in evolving TypeScript has always been to provide an upgrade path that minimizes disruptive breaking changes while still giving ourselves some flexibility to flag suspicious code as errors when appropriate. For this reason, we’re continuing with a similar versioning model to that of past releases, so 4.0 is just the natural continuation from TypeScript 3.9.<\/p>\n
To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet<\/a>, or use npm with the following command:<\/p>\n You can also get editor support by<\/p>\n Now let’s take a look at what’s in store for TypeScript 4.0!<\/p>\n Consider a function in JavaScript called Also consider How would we type either of these in TypeScript?<\/p>\n For Uh…okay, that’s…seven overloads for when the second array is always empty. Let’s add some for when npm install typescript@beta<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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concat<\/code>, that takes two array or tuple types, and concatenates them together as a new array.<\/p>\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>)<\/span> {<\/span>\r\n return<\/span> [<\/span>...arr1<\/span>,<\/span> ...arr2<\/span>]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\n}<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\ntail<\/code>, that takes an array or tuple, and returns all elements but the first.<\/p>\nfunction<\/span> tail<\/span>(<\/span>arg<\/span>)<\/span> {<\/span>\r\n const<\/span> [<\/span>_<\/span>,<\/span> ...result<\/span>]<\/span> =<\/span> arg<\/span>;<\/span>\r\n return<\/span> result<\/span>\r\n}<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\nconcat<\/code>, the only valid thing we could do in older versions of the language was to try and write some overloads.<\/p>\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A,<\/span> B><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E]<\/span>;<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> concat<\/span><<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E,<\/span> F><\/span>(<\/span>arr1<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E,<\/span> F]<\/span>,<\/span> arr2<\/span>: [<\/span>]<\/span>)<\/span>: [<\/span>A,<\/span> B,<\/span> C,<\/span> D,<\/span> E,<\/span> F]<\/span>;<\/span>)<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\narr2<\/code> has one argument.<\/p>\nfunction<\/span>