Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase.

Microsoft has released the beta version for TypeScript 6.0, the last release with the current JavaScript codebase. From ...

TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...