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TypeScript Timeline October 13, 2018

TypeScript is a very cleverly architected solution to adding types to Javascript. The team behind it managed to create something that still allows the flexibility of Javascript while remaining 100% compatible with it (Javascript files are TypeScript files to the compiling and there’s even the allowJs option if you’re too lazy to rename your pure javascript files to .ts).

One of the best decisions they made was to support structural typing instead of requiring a strict type match (like many static languages do, e.g. Java and C#).

That said, as I’ve read more news about key companies adopting TypeScript I’ve always wondered how this matched up with the actual release timeline. So, I went to the effort today to put that together. The screenshot below is a very low resolution image, so it is purely meant as a thumbnail (you can click on it to navigate to the screenshot I took):

However, if you’d like to interact with the timeline, you can use this URL: TypeScript Timeline