Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript, potentially making the company’s TypeScript language, which builds on JavaScript, faster and easier to use.

TypeScript is a new language that's based on JavaScript, and which compiles to JavaScript, but which, Microsoft argues, is better suited to the development of "large" applications.

Type syntax in JavaScript The new Stage 0 proposal was written and put forth by Gil Tayar, Microsoft's Daniel Rosenwasser, Igalia's Romulo Cintra and Bloomberg's Rob Palmer and is available to ...

Microsoft announced an ambitious project to inject type syntax into ECMAScript, the official JavaScript standard. While that might sound an awful lot like TypeScript, it's different. The company is ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...

Never mind the complaints: JavaScript scripting is the best way forward for Microsoft Office and the Windows platform. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Microsoft has launched version 4.0 of its popular TypeScript programming language. The launch has new features focused on improving developer productivity by using TypeScript, enhancing performance ...

In his keynote earlier this week, Bob Muglia, Microsoft president of software and tools, proclaimed that IE9 would support HTML5. LePage offered a more nuanced view of that statement, though.

Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

Yohan Lasorsa, a senior Microsoft cloud developer advocate and main host of the Node.js series, recommends students complete the JavaScript video series before starting the Node.js series.