Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...

Could JavaScript evolve to support a native type system—without needing TypeScript? A new proposal from the TypeScript team, submitted to ECMAScript’s TC39 committee, suggests exactly that. It’s ...

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for building apps ...