Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Microsoft has released a new development environment as TypeScript, which is said to help developers write more complex apps with the scripting language. The new programming language is translated into JavaScript so that it can support any browser. TypeScript is open source and its code source is licenced under Apache 2.0, which can be found on Codeplex.
TypeScript syntax includes several
proposed features of Ecmascript 6 (ES6), including classes and modules.
TypeScript also provides to JavaScript programmers a system of optional
type annotations. These type annotations are like the JSDoc comments
found in the Closure system, but in TypeScript they are integrated
directly into the language syntax. This integration makes the code more
readable and reduces the maintenance cost of synchronizing type
annotations with their corresponding variables. Microsoft has a Visual
Studio plugin available ,which offers IDE support to TypeScript
developers.
The creator of C#, Turbo
Pascal and Delphi, Anders Hejlsberg has made the language possible along
with Steve Lucco, the developer behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript
engine, and Luke Hoban, who is involved in ECMAScript standardisation.
