Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the ...

Microsoft announced an ambitious project to inject type syntax into ECMAScript, the official JavaScript standard. While that might sound an awful lot like TypeScript, it's different. The company is ...

CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements ...

Because type syntax is not natively supported in JavaScript, a tool had to exist to remove types before running code. For systems like TypeScript, it made sense to integrate a type erasure step ...