Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-previews-new-javascript-like-programming-language-typescript/

by pbreit • 14 years ago

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debacle• 14 years ago

I have this strange sort of sinking feeling that HTML5 is going to hit the open Internet in much the same way IE6 did. Every player in the game seems to be working in a different direction and the browser is turning into something much more than a vehicle for content.

I know I'm not the only one who believes this is a bad thing.

pippy• 14 years ago

Right now that can't happen. Market share is dictating a productive environment for HTML5 that forces standard compliant behaviour. Until a browser comes out on top it's unlikely we'll see anything similar to what IE6 did to the web for sometime.

sgentle• 14 years ago

Except in mobile, where webkit is the only game in town. In fact, I think we're already seeing web developers write mobile sites that only work in webkit.

josteink• 14 years ago

Except Google adding whatever they feel like to Chrome and feature hungry devs pushing users to Chrome because MSIE lacks "HTML5 support", when what they mean is that they want to use last week's experimental APIs in production sites today.

And only writing for webkit when doing mobile. Screw Firefox, or Opera or webstandards in general. Weehoo iPhone! (May also not break on Android)

It's already a strong trend. I say the fear is justified.

dreamdu5t• 14 years ago

Uhhh.. I hope Microsoft understands that JavaScript isn't popular because of language features or syntax, it's popular because of widespread browser support.

rcknight• 14 years ago

This compiles to javascript ... whats the problem?

dudus• 14 years ago

The problem is that the main benefit is a misdirection (syntax similar to javascript), on top of that this doesn't add anything different than coffee script or Dart already does.

This is a language without a proposal just to keep microsoft in the game.

Since Google and Mozilla have a javascript alternative we need one too

freehunter• 14 years ago

From the TypeScript homepage:

"Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source. "

This doesn't seem too different from CoffeeScript.

lucian1900• 14 years ago

I find it interesting. Minimal addition, which adds a bit of strong typing to JS.

Weak typing is the thing that annoys me the most in JS, coming from Python.

viggity• 14 years ago

here is the blog link from MSDN http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/10/01/typescr...

edtechdev• 14 years ago

Added it to this long list of languages that compile to JavaScript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

TypeScript is very similar in spirit to Dart, by Google. (see the 'Static typing' section of the above webpage)

tlrobinson• 14 years ago

Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript

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