While I'm still skeptical, the one advantage over other similar projects (such as Dart), is that it interops with existing JavaScript.
I think my favorite quote so far is, "hate JavaScript, then you'll love TypeScript!" From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Davy Jones Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:41 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Opinions of TypeScript? I haven't looked at it and probably won't. As far as I can see, the only new thing is static typing? JavaScript already has oo. There are enough technologies around js already why confuse matters more? Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 4 oct. 2012, at 10:27, Greg Keogh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Folks, I just heard about TypeScript<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript>. It superficially seems like a good idea. Has anyone tried it? I'm downloading the VS2012 MSI<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790> for it to see what it's like. Let's face, anything that makes JavaScript development easier will be welcome, but will TypeScript help or hinder? -- Greg
