Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the ...

A much more performant TypeScript is now available in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders build, capitalizing on speed gains achieved by porting the language compiler to the native Go language. The ...

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Microsoft has released the final version of TypeScript 7.0. Unlike previous TypeScript versions, the compiler is no longer based on JavaScript/Node.js but has been reimplemented almost one-to-one in ...

TypeScript 4.0, a major upgrade to Microsoft’s popular typed superset of JavaScript, is now available as a production release, with improvements for builds and editing scenarios as well as support for ...

Fastify is an open-source, low-performance overhead Node.js web framework. Fastify version 3 introduces support for running Express applications inside Fastify, adds improvements to logging ...

Other performance enhancements in TypeScript 4.4 promise faster path normalization and path mapping, along with faster incremental builds. An optimization has been added for source map generation of ...

A few years ago, Bloomberg Engineering decided to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language. This article shares some of the insights and lessons we learned during this journey. The ...