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TypeScript is now officially 10 years old!

  * Traven West

Traven West

Oct 8, 2022 * 2 min read

After initially being greeted with skepticism, Microsoft's TypeScript
programming language, which brought static types to JavaScript
development, has withstood the test of time, a Microsoft official
wrote this past weekend.

 
What is TypeScript?
TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming
language that adds some key features that are important for
enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed --
that is, variables and other data structures can be declared to be of
a specific type, like a string or a...
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TypeScript's 10^th birthday occurred on Saturday, October 1, said
Daniel Rosenwasser, Microsoft senior program manager for TypeScript,
in the blog post. "To some JavaScript users, a team trying to bring
static types to JavaScript might have sounded like an evil plot or a
joke," he said. But TypeScript enabled powerful tools like type
checking and rich editor features such as code completion for
JavaScript.

Microsoft knew that JavaScript was going to be used everywhere, and
developers would want tools to help them write it. "For the team,
there was a vision for what TypeScript could be, and in fact, if you
look back at our first announcement post, the value proposition was
largely the same as it is today!"

Citing the requirements for the fledgling project, Rosenwasser said
TypeScript had to be free, open source, and interoperate and evolve
with existing JavaScript. It also had to feel like JavaScript. Among
the design goals:

  * Imposing no runtime overhead on emitted programs.
  * Aligning with current and future ECMAScript proposals.
  * Preserving the runtime behavior of JavaScript code.
  * Avoiding the additin of expression-level syntax.

TypeScript's creators focused chiefly on the type system and avoided
adding new runtime syntax and behaviors. Today, TypeScript is used by
millions of developers, and its popularity is increasing. The
language has scored prominently in surveys and language rankings,
such as the Pypl Popularity of Programming Language index, CircleCI's
2022 State of Software Delivery report, and GitHub's Octoverse report
.

TypeScript is leveraged in prominent applications such as the Angular
web development framework and the Deno runtime. The current version
is TypeScript 4.8. TypeScript 4.9 is in a beta release stage.

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