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.
TypeScript’s 10th 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.
