Here's all you need to know about Angular 2, the exciting new successor to Google's wildly popular JavaScript framework, AngularJS ...

Where Angular wins: TypeScript Angular uses a variant of JavaScript called TypeScript, so named because it mixes strong type checking with JavaScript’s general structure and approach.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript -- the world's most popular programming language -- that compiles to JavaScript and is aimed at large coding projects.