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TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

617 mentions on Hacker News by 467 people: 78 stories, 539 comments · first 2014-07-23 · latest 2026-10-20

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    TypeScript's proposal for JSX/React support (.tsx extension)
    story by buu700 · 2015-05-19 · 0 comments
  2. …should not be available in arrow functions according to the spec. (source: discussion here https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1609 )
    comment by SanderMak · 2015-05-08 · in Quinn – A web framework designed for things to come
  3. Check the roadmap: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Roadmap It's true that there's not too many ES6 features implemented yet, but the 1.5 release will bring a lot of new ES6 features, and it's right around the corner.
    comment by nawitus · 2015-04-21 · in Deploying ECMAScript 6
  4. There is an ES6 label for tracking these issues: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/labels/ES6
    comment by flyingmutant · 2015-04-21 · in Deploying ECMAScript 6
  5. …written in Word, and of a desire to convert into a much more web-friendly format. See specs.md: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/tree/master/doc Speaking more honestly, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek and trying to bounce certain…
    comment by jschrf · 2015-03-18 · in ES6 RC3 released
  6. Here's an interesting script in the TypeScript repo that may be of use: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/scripts/... Something else from the same repo that may also be of use: TypeScript's elegant and well-considered…
    comment by jschrf · 2015-03-18 · in ES6 RC3 released
  7. See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/394 and https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1003 for what the future may hold
    comment by jbrantly · 2015-03-11 · in Baobab: A JavaScript data tree supporting Om-style cursors, with React mixins
  8. …mention is modules and classes. Also, when I googled 'typescript template string' the first hit was https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13 , so I assumed they were supported.
    comment by findjashua · 2015-03-11 · in Strengthening JavaScript
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    Comparison Between TypeScript and Facebook Flow
    story by rayshan · 2015-02-23 · 4 comments
  10. …also made it out in TypeScript 1.4. An example of the syntax can be found in the following file: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/v1.4/tests/case...
    comment by gisenberg · 2015-01-17 · in Announcing TypeScript 1.4
  11. …into their status yesterday, in fact, and came across these tracker threads: * Non-nullable types: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/185 * Sum types: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/186 The short story is that…
    comment by BrianHV · 2015-01-17 · in Announcing TypeScript 1.4
  12. The discussion on Github for user-defined type guards (spion's comment) is at https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1007 Advanced pattern matching, monads, etc. might be out of scope for TS, since it doesn't want to have major…
    comment by Arnavion · 2015-01-16 · in Announcing TypeScript 1.4
  13. …its really nice to have typechecked HTML-like templates, I suppose. Even more info here: [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1265
    comment by spion · 2015-01-05 · in Exploring Flow, Facebook's Type Checker for JavaScript
  14. that's not really the actual timeline. here is the pull request for adding union types. https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/824 I believe all 3 teams, TypeScript, Flow, and AtScript, are working together for few things as is.
    comment by ahmelsayed · 2014-11-19 · in TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more
  15. Here is some interesting discussion on that aspect of the typesystem: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14 It also discusses Flow from 2 months ago (from a now removed video)
    comment by inglor · 2014-11-18 · in Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
  16. Yep, here's some related discussion: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/185 tl;dr: they want to support both of those features, the question is what syntax to use and how to introduce those features into the existing ecosystem.
    comment by DougBTX · 2014-11-18 · in Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
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    TypeScript adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript
    story by antoinec · 2014-07-23 · 0 comments