Instead, it extends it, with the result that any JavaScript program is automatically a TypeScript program, without requiring any changes at all (albeit a program that has no static type checking ...

Could JavaScript evolve to support a native type system—without needing TypeScript? A new proposal from the TypeScript team, submitted to ECMAScript’s TC39 committee, suggests exactly that.

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are ...

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 ...