Name: Anonymous 2012-10-02 10:37
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript
Well it looks like Anders took the sensible approach, dont replace JS with an entirely new language like Google is trying to do with Dart because it will never win. But rather translate a statically typed class based language into existing JS compilers. JS is a great language to port languages to, as far as I know it is probably the most popular language for doing this. So it will be interesting to see how the optional type system holds up to large scale apps.
Well it looks like Anders took the sensible approach, dont replace JS with an entirely new language like Google is trying to do with Dart because it will never win. But rather translate a statically typed class based language into existing JS compilers. JS is a great language to port languages to, as far as I know it is probably the most popular language for doing this. So it will be interesting to see how the optional type system holds up to large scale apps.