Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...

US analytics startup Heap announced five years ago that it was saying goodbye to CoffeeScript and moving the front end of its web app to Microsoft's TypeScript 'superset' of the JavaScript programming ...

“There’s a rumor going around that Civet is the new CoffeeScript but maybe that’s a good thing. CoffeeScript brought classes, destructuring, async/await, arrow functions, rest parameters, and more to ...

CoffeeScript, a preprocessor that takes code and compiles it to JavaScript, is creeping forward in a prominent language popularity index — a sign that developers want alternatives to JavaScript. This ...

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JavaScript, it’s no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The ...

TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript programming language developed by Microsoft for creating complex applications, is now a full-fledged member of the company’s flagship Visual Studio integrated ...

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TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript programming language developed by Microsoft for creating complex applications, is now a full-fledged member of the company’s flagship Visual Studio integrated ...

TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript programming language developed by Microsoft for creating complex applications, is now a full-fledged member of the company’s flagship Visual Studio integrated ...