[Grace-core] Typed JavaScript - Dart from MS

James Noble kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Mon Oct 1 19:59:51 PDT 2012


but with overloading :-)   

> Dr Anderson telling me that Microsoft have released TypeScript - http://www.typescriptlang.org 
> 
> A typed superset of JavaScript.  For _some_ meaning of typed! 
> 
> Read Chris's blog  -http://www.lyonanderson.org/blog/2012/10/01/typescript/ 

I think this is the big announcement Anders Hejlsberg made at GOTO.

So we have MS and Google both pushing proprietary JS-like languages... 

To me - that sounds like an opportunity for a "non-aligned" language, especially for teaching...

J


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