Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

Microsoft officially announced TypeScript 7.0 Beta on April 21, 2026. The company says TypeScript 7.0 is often 10 times faster than 6.0. The beta ships through ...

The rewrite of TypeScript in Go is not actually a rewrite, but a 1:1 port of the existing source code. In this way, the development team wants to ensure that the existing features are also available ...

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TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...