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Google's Angular 2 Being Built With Microsoft's TypeScript
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.
Your info is out of date - a few days ago AtScript merge with TypeScript has been announced, so Angular 2 won't be written in AtScript, but TypeScript itself.
Bollocks. TypeScript is open source, just like Angular.
It's good luck to be superstitious
Interesting use of TypeScript, an entire rougelike (i.e. Nethack, i.e. the '@' game) game authoring library written in TypeScript, from the author of libtcod:
Game: http://roguecentral.org/doryen/yendor.ts/game/index.html
60fps example:http://roguecentral.org/doryen/yendor.ts/bench/index.html
Library:https://github.com/jice-nospam/yendor.ts/releases/tag/v0.4.0
What's interesting is it does alpha shading, fluid mechanics, cloud mechanics, terrain generation etc all inside of a text based game, somewhat like Dwarf Fortress but a lot more flexible graphically.
moox. for a new generation.
Yes, it "worked out" with Microsoft opening up Entity Framework, ASP.Net, vNext, .Net, C#, F#, Typescript and a host of other things, on the industry standard platform for open source projects, GitHub, using the industry standard SCM for open source projects, git.
How did it "work out" in your mind? Because from where I'm standing, open source won, it embraced and extended MS...
Shut up with your facts so I can keep spelling Google as Scroogle and Microsoft with a dollar sign.
It would appear you're not a web applications developer, then. AngularJS is a leading framework for web app development, and TypeScript is suddenly the most likely language to emerge from the pack of "front-end-statically-typed-languages-that-compiles-to-Javascript". If you're not doing web apps, you don't care, but lots of people will.
In a month
Release 0.9.0 of Angular was 52 months ago and the appearance of the next framework that topples it will be the first. As a web developer, if you haven't actually used Angular for at least experimental purposes by now then you're an old fogy that's likely to get canned for someone more current.
Angular 2.0 won't trip up anyone and going with Typescript was a smart and pragmatic decision; the Angular team does not indulge NIH, apparently. That sort of humility and wisdom is both rare and a big part of the reason Angular remains popular. The tools that typical Angular developers use already integrate Typescript declarations for auto-complete, detecting errors, etc., and now that will just get stronger.
Google could have used their momentum and mind share to bull AtScript into yet another Javascript hairball. They could have and they didn't. That deserves acknowledgement.
So Typescript is the way. Microsoft has actually managed to contribute something they can't monetize to the modern web stack. How times have changed.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Hmm. I do web apps in Python with CGI. But people pay me to do crypto hardware.
I guess I can wait another five minutes for the next web framework to come along.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
I don't care about Angular. It's just another tool for the saps in the web page mines (and one that can get you trapped in those mines as well).
TypeScript, OTOH, is the greatest addition to JavaScript I've seen. No more messy .prototype., and much less "can't read property 'x' of undefined". It's not there yet, I must say. I would like it to add some more transformations instead of just type checking, but if you have to write in JavaScript: do yourself a favor, and check it out.
Visual Studio 2013.