TypeScript

[guinness]

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TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing and class-based object-oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C# and creator of Delphi and Turbo Pascal, has worked on development of TypeScript.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript

 

Site: http://www.typescriptlang.org/

[James]

For anyone who's used Coffeescript, this is similar.

[Kip]

I like it. I have programmed Typescript using Visual Studio before. The VS plugin is very good, however I'm on Ubuntu now. All the Sublime Text plugins for Typescript are buggy as hell and keep crashing. With no alternatives, my only option is to not use Typescript.

[James]

  On 4/6/2014 at 7:29 PM, Kip said:

I like it. I have programmed Typescript using Visual Studio before. The VS plugin is very good, however I'm on Ubuntu now. All the Sublime Text plugins for Typescript are buggy as hell and keep crashing. With no alternatives, my only option is to not use Typescript.

What plugins are you using? I may be able to fix.

[Kip]

  On 4/7/2014 at 7:36 AM, James said:

What plugins are you using? I may be able to fix.

T3S is currently the only maintained one.

 

Btw; I see this thread has both a Microsoft and an Open Source tag. That must be a first.

Edited April 7, 2014 by Kip

[guinness]

  On 4/7/2014 at 6:04 PM, Kip said:

Btw; I see this thread has both a Microsoft and an Open Source tag. That must be a first.

It's true though.

[James]

  On 4/7/2014 at 6:04 PM, Kip said:

Btw; I see this thread has both a Microsoft and an Open Source tag. That must be a first.

Have you not seen what they've recently open sourced?

[guinness]

Like....http://referencesource.microsoft.com/ 

I don't have any issues with Microsoft personally.

[monoceres]

I really like static typing, but the somewhat heavy verbosity of javascript still makes me a little bit turned off. Now, introduce type inference (like f# for example) into coffeescript, that would be really nice!

Still, I like this new trend with languages compiling into javascript. With increasing performance and light weight applications it becomes much more practical than previous examples (google web toolkit comes to mind). The fact that you can interact directly with the libraries from the blossoming javascript community makes it even more interesting.

[guinness]

Well worth an hour of my time: 

[junkew]

would be fun to see activex component working of autoit

https://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/463383

[iamtheky]

AtScript looks pretty legit as well, though i have only watched and read.

 

 

 

Edited December 31, 2014 by boththose

[guinness]

Wrote my first piece of TypeScript (albeit simple enough) today. It's good to know that by adding that layer of type safety, means I am less likely to fail with silly issues such as assigning a string to variable that should hold only a number.

Code:

I did think this would be something useful to have for AutoIt, especially for those of us who code with one variable containing a single datatype only and the use of Hungarian notation e.g. $i, $s, $b etc...

Edited January 11, 2015 by guinness