Today’s announcement by Microsoft: [...] we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10×, and substantially reduce memory usage. This blog post looks at some of the details behind the news.| 2ality.com
Read this blog post if you are a JavaScript programmer and want to get a rough idea of what using TypeScript is like (think first step before learning more details). You’ll get answers to the following questions: How is TypeScript code different from JavaScript code? How is TypeScript code run? How does TypeScript help during editing in an IDE? Etc. Note: This blog post does not explain why TypeScript is useful. If you want to know more about that, you can read my TypeScript sales pitch.| 2ality.com
JavaScript’s Arrays are so flexible that TypeScript provides two different kinds of types for handling them: Array types for arbitrary-length sequences of values that all have the same type – e.g.: Array Tuple types for fixed-length sequences of values where each one may have a different type – e.g.: [number, string, boolean] In this blog post, we look at the latter – especially how to compute with tuples at the type level.| 2ality.com