Announcing TypeScript Preview for Visual Studio
Posted on October 1, 2012 by Chris Koenig
Today, Soma announced on his blog the preview release of a new, open source project called TypeScript. TypeScript adds optional types, classes and modules to JavaScript so that developer can make better tooling for large-scale JavaScript applications. TypeScript comes with a cross-platform compiler that allows developers to code in TypeScript and output standards-based JavaScript for any browser or host.
Along with the language features of TypeScript itself, Microsoft is also announcing the release of an extension for Visual Studio 2012 which provides a cool tooling experience with Intellisense, refactoring support and as-you-type error reporting, just like you’d expect from Visual Studio.
You can learn more about TypeScript via the following links:
- Soma’s Blog Post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/10/01/typescript-javascript-development-at-application-scale.aspx
- TypeScript Home: http://www.typescriptlang.org/
- TypeScript Playground: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground
- CodePlex Project: http://typescript.codeplex.com/
- VSIX Installer: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/F/2FFA1FBA-97CA-4FFB-8ED7-A4AE06398948/TypeScriptSetup.0.8.0.msi
- Video featuring TypeScript architect Anders Hejlsberg demonstrating TypeScript: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript
Go get it – it looks really cool!
