TypeScript is a variant of JavaScript that provides strong type information, a powerful development tool that minimizes bugs and makes JavaScript programs easier to build in enterprise settings.

Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase. The company announced last year that it was working on a native ...

If you asked 100 software developers to predict what the fastest-growing programming language on GitHub was in 2025, it's likely that some people would guess Python, given the language's popularity in ...

Developer Theo Browne used AI agents to rewrite Microsoft’s TypeScript compiler in Rust. The result is said to run twice as ...

Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the ...

Microsoft says work on the next two versions of TypeScript is going well, with both TypeScript 6 and 7 on course to appear in early 2026. TypeScript 7.0 is the version that is being rewritten in ...

TypeScript 7 is available now through the standard typescript npm package. Microsoft says full builds typically see 8x to 12x speedups. VS Code's TypeScript 7 project-load path improved from nearly ...