Publishing packages to NPM is not a particularly difficult challenge by itself. However, configuring your TypeScript project for success might be. Will your package work on most projects? Will the users have type-hinting and autocompletion? Will it work with ES … Read more
There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped. For more language-centric tasks, like a formal specification, or a toy hobby language, OCaml makes most sense. See, for example, plzoo or WebAssembly reference interpreter. For … Read more
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TypeScript 5.2 will introduce a new keyword – ‘using’ – that you can use to dispose of anything with a Symbol.dispose function when it leaves scope. typescript{ const getResource = () => { return { [Symbol.dispose]: () => { console.log(‘Hooray!’) … Read more
March 16th, 2023 Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler, and faster. We’ve implemented the new decorators standard, added functionality to better support ESM … Read more
JP Posma, April 2022 — Discuss on Hacker News Typescript and Rust can feel pretty similar: // Typescript type Vec2 = { x: number, y: number }; function avgLen(vecs: Vec2[]): number { let total = 0; for (const vec in … Read more
In the past I’ve written about Typescript’s biggest underlying problem: it’s slow compilation speeds. Amazing projects like esbuild, SWC, and bun solve the first half of the problem, emitting JS from TS, but they skip the critical type-checking phase completely … Read more
2022-01-12 About three weeks ago I decided to completely rewrite the frontend of Inhyped.com from TypeScript to ReScript. In this article, I’d like to share my experience and learnings. You can see my tweets regarding the rewriting, they’re marked with … Read more
Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions by ahejlsberg · Pull Request #46266 · microsoft/TypeScript · GitHub {{ message }} Conversation Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. This suggestion is invalid because … Read more