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Today we're happy to announce our release candidate for TypeScript 2.1! If you aren't familiar with it, TypeScript is a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript, and brings new features from ES6 and later to whatever JavaScript runtime you're using. As usual you can get the RC through NuGet, or just by running You can then easily...

Today we're excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0! TypeScript 2.0 has been a great journey for the team, with several contributions from the community and partners along the way. It brings several new features that enhance developer productivity, advances TypeScript's alignment with ECMAScript's evolution, provides wide support f...

TypeScript 2.0 is almost out, and today we're happy to show just how close we are with our release candidate! If you haven't used TypeScript yet, check out the intro tutorial on our website to get started. To start using the RC now, you can download TypeScript 2.0 RC for Visual Studio 2015 (which requires VS Update 3), grab it through NuGet, or us...

Today we're excited to roll out our beta release of TypeScript 2.0. If you're not familiar with TypeScript yet, you can start learning it today on our website. To get your hands on the beta, you can download TypeScript 2.0 Beta for Visual Studio 2015 (which will require VS 2015 Update 3), or just run This release includes plenty of new features...

Declaration files ( files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we've known there was room for improvement. As we get closer to TypeScript 2.0, we're very excited to show off a sneak peak of our plan to simplify things. Getting type declarations in TypeScript 2.0...

One of the goals of TypeScript has always been to make writing JavaScript projects a clean, easy, and simple process. We're always looking at where things could be improved and listening to the community to get ideas on how to do this better. You may've recently heard the term "JavaScript fatigue" thrown around to describe the feeling of starting ...

Today we are thrilled to release a new TypeScript website! The new site delivers a fresh design, more up-to-date documentation, and soon a new series of quick start guides. Documentation TypeScript is developed on GitHub, and as such, all of the documentation is written in markdown on the TypeScript Handbook repo. This is primarily done to easily a...

Today we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.8. In the TypeScript 1.8 Beta release blog post, we highlighted some of the key features that are now available to TypeScript users - how JavaScript in TypeScript compilation provides a great way forward to start converting your JavaScript projects to TypeScript, improvements to JSX/TSX ...

Today we are releasing a beta of TypeScript 1.8. There are quite a lot of changes coming in the 1.8 release, so please check them out and send us your feedback. TypeScript 1.8 beta is available for Visual Studio 2015, NuGet (Compiler and MSBuild task), npm, and straight from the source. For npm users, make sure to use the following command: &...

Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.7 along with the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. This release enables async/await by default for ECMAScript 6 (ES6) targets. It also adds support for polymorphic 'this' typing, proposed ECMAScript 2016 exponentiation syntax, and ES6 module targeting. For a complete change l...