Plain JavaScript generates errors only at runtime, and then only if your program happens to reach a path with errors. The TypeScript in 5 minutes tutorial makes the benefits clear. The starting ...

TypeScript is compiled, rather than interpreted like JavaScript, so errors can be caught before execution; IDEs that perform background incremental compilation can spot such errors during the ...

TypeScript is a new language that's based on JavaScript, and which compiles to JavaScript, but which, Microsoft argues, is better suited to the development of "large" applications.

The January 2018 update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor incorporates the new TypeScript 2.7.1 edition, allowing for quicker fixing of errors in TypeScript and even regular JavaScript files.

New versions of the language introduce new type-level features, add support for JavaScript features, improve performance and stability, as well as improve the type-checker to find more type errors.

As of today, we now know more about the formerly secret Microsoft JavaScript effort upon which Technical Fellow and father of C# Anders Hejlsberg has been working. On October 1, Microsoft took the ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last ...