Not surprisingly, much of that cool stuff (and the part I'm most interested in) extends TypeScript's primary feature: data typing. Here are three new data type-related features in TypeScript 1.4.

In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the programmer can declare variables and other data structures to be of a specific type, like a string or a boolean, and TypeScript will ...

Next TypeScript release, due February 25, will support a limited form of checking against conditional and indexed acces types in return statements. Microsoft has moved TypeScript 5.8 into the beta ...

Using generics in TypeScript is very similar to using them in, for example, C#. This method calls a generic function, specifying the data type to be used (string, in this case): You can even declare ...

Compared to other programming languages which—with a few notable exceptions—feature nominal type systems, TypeScript features a structural one: As long as the shape of an object is equal or ...

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for ...