Google's Angular 2 Being Built With Microsoft's TypeScript

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:22AM from the if-you-build-it-they-will-type dept.

itwbennett writes Big news for fans of static typing! Google and Microsoft have partnered to both enhance TypeScript and rebuild Angular in the TypeScript language. TypeScript, Microsoft's attempt at improving on JavaScript development, has been out there for a while without a notable use case. Likewise, Dart, Google's attempt at a language which accomplishes many of the same goals, hasn't seen a lot of traction outside of Google. With Google creating the next version of its popular framework Angular 2 using TypeScript, some weight is being thrown behind a single effort. Of course, Angular has its fair share of haters, and a complete re-write in version 2 that breaks compatibility with previous versions isn't going to help matters.

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Re:This is really old news by dos1 · 2015-03-11 09:40 · Score: 4, Informative

Your info is out of date - a few days ago AtScript merge with TypeScript has been announced, so Angular 2 won't be written in AtScript, but TypeScript itself.
Re:Fuck Google and Micro$hit. by mikaere · 2015-03-11 09:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Bollocks. TypeScript is open source, just like Angular.

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