Typescript
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verb
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(As a noun)
Typescript ( noun )
A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Origin:
From type + script, coined by microsoft in 2012 as a name for their open-source programming language.
Examples:
- I am currently learning TypeScript to improve my programming skills.
- Our team decided to use TypeScript for our new project because of its static typing and improved tooling.
- Many popular JavaScript libraries have TypeScript declarations available, making it easy to use them in a TypeScript project.
- TypeScript's type system can catch many common programming errors before the code is even run.
- TypeScript allows for optional type annotations, making it easy to incrementally adopt in existing JavaScript codebases.
(As a verb)
Typescript ( verb )
A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Origin:
From type + script, coined by microsoft in 2012 as a name for their open-source programming language.
Examples:
- I am currently learning TypeScript to improve my programming skills.
- Our team decided to use TypeScript for our new project because of its static typing and improved tooling.
- Many popular JavaScript libraries have TypeScript declarations available, making it easy to use them in a TypeScript project.
- TypeScript's type system can catch many common programming errors before the code is even run.
- TypeScript allows for optional type annotations, making it easy to incrementally adopt in existing JavaScript codebases.