Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

The rewrite of TypeScript in Go is not actually a rewrite, but a 1:1 port of the existing source code. In this way, the development team wants to ensure that the existing features are also available ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...

TypeScript is a language that incorporates types into JavaScript and is developed and maintained by Microsoft. On March 11, 2025, Microsoft announced that they are developing a new tool that will ...

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TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the ...