Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript

[Brink]

As of today, we now know more about the formerly secret Microsoft JavaScript effort upon which Technical Fellow and father of C# Anders Hejlsberg has been working.

On October 1, Microsoft took the wraps off TypeScript, a new programming language that is aimed at making JavaScript development scale beyond the client.

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Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript | ZDNet

 

[Gornot]

It sounds kind of... confusing to me, but hey, it's an open source language, so that's something at least, right?