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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

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Something subtle from some recent VS @code release notes: VS Code core, and all its built-in extensions, are now type-checked with TypeScript 7 native previews! code.visualstudio.com/update…
From the VS Code 1.119 blog post: Typechecking now uses TypeScript 7 for faster development iteration Last iteration we moved VS Code's main watch task to use TypeScript 7. This iteration, we finished the migration to use TypeScript 7 for all built-in extensions and core code. By migrating the Copilot extension to use TypeScript 7, we cut the typechecking time from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. These dramatic speedups enable both developers and agents to iterate more quickly in the VS Code codebase.

ALT From the VS Code 1.119 blog post: Typechecking now uses TypeScript 7 for faster development iteration Last iteration we moved VS Code's main watch task to use TypeScript 7. This iteration, we finished the migration to use TypeScript 7 for all built-in extensions and core code. By migrating the Copilot extension to use TypeScript 7, we cut the typechecking time from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. These dramatic speedups enable both developers and agents to iterate more quickly in the VS Code codebase.

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You can try it out on your project by installing our native-preview package from npm. New releases are published daily, and are already used by many teams in production! npmx.dev/package/@typescript…

@typescript/native-preview - npmx

Preview CLI and JS API for the native TypeScript compiler port

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Apr 21
TypeScript 7.0 Beta is here! Built on a new native and parallelized foundation, it's already being used on multi-million line codebases. Read up more here and try it on your projects today! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta - TypeScript

Today we are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 7.0 Beta! If you haven't been following TypeScript 7.0's development, this release

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Mar 23
TypeScript 6.0 is now available! This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more! But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript

TypeScript 6.0 is now available! TypeScript 6 is a stepping-stone release, aligning with the upcoming native-speed 7.0 release.

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Mar 6
The Release Candidate for TypeScript 6.0 is now available! Read up on what's coming up with 6.0 & 7.0, and try it out on your codebase today! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 6.0 RC - TypeScript

Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following

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Feb 11
TypeScript 6.0 beta is now published! This release brings - inference improvements for functions - updates to package.json 'imports' - the Temporal APIs - alignments for the upcoming TypeScript 7.0 - & more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Beta - TypeScript

Today we are announcing the beta release of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the beta, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@beta TypeScript 6.0 is a...

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It's the first Monday of 2026! Awful, we know. But have you tried out TypeScript's native previews?
41% Yeah, it's great!
10% No, I hate fast stuff!
9% Something else (uh oh...)
40% 🍿
847 votes • Final results
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And to save you a click, here's the VS Code extension: marketplace.visualstudio.com…

TypeScript (Native Preview) - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Preview of the native TypeScript language server for Visual Studio Code.

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Still reading? Here's the npm link too. Now go go go go go go! npmjs.com/package/@typescrip…

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We've got some updates on TypeScript 7! The new native port - can type-check any project - supports --build and --incremental - has rich editor features implemented - is still 10x faster and is ready for you to try today! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Progress on TypeScript 7 - December 2025 - TypeScript

Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we've been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw

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28 Oct 2025
Big news in this year's GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript is now the most-used language on GitHub! We are thrilled and grateful to see the TypeScript and JavaScript community continue to grow and thrive. 🚀 Read up more at github.blog/news-insights/oc…

Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1

In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.

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1 Aug 2025
TypeScript 5.9 is now available! 📣 This release brings: ✅ An updated tsc --init ✅ Type-checking for the new 'import defer' ✅ Actual summaries in more DOM APIs ✅ Expandable quick info hovers (✨preview✨) and more! Read up more on our blog: devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 5.9 - TypeScript

Today we are excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.9! If you're not familiar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by

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25 Jul 2025
TypeScript 5.9 RC is available to try! Let us know how it works before next week's stable release! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 5.9 RC - TypeScript

Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 5.9! To get started using the Release Candidate, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D...

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8 Jul 2025
TypeScript 5.9 Beta just went out! Try it in your project and let us know what you think: devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript 5.9 Beta - TypeScript

Today we are excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.9 Beta. To get started using the beta, you can get it through npm with the following

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22 May 2025
Today we're announcing previews of the native port of TypeScript! These nightly previews will be available on npm and the VS Code marketplace! npm install -D @​typescript/native-preview npx tsgo --version Read up more on our blog! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

Announcing TypeScript Native Previews - TypeScript

Previews of the native TypeScript port are now available on npm and for VS Code through the Visual Studio Marketplace!

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13 Mar 2025
Starting soon! 📢 We've got a TypeScript AMA starting in just a few minutes (10am Pacific) on the TypeScript Discord! discord.gg/typescript

Join the TypeScript Community Discord Server!

The official community for TypeScript. Active help channels, type experts and more. Join now! | 49947 members

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Theo - t3.gg
@theo
11 Mar 2025
Still wild how similar the code is between the original TypeScript and the Go port 🤯 (vid just went live btw)
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alistair
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11 Mar 2025
The new TypeScript is *really* fast
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David Fowler
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11 Mar 2025
Several of you asked me why TypeScript chose Go instead of C#, and what that decision implies about Microsoft's commitment to C# and .NET. See github.com/microsoft/typescr… by @ahejlsberg TL;DR nothing has changed. #dotnet #csharp

Why Go? · microsoft typescript-go · Discussion #411

Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...

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Anders Hejlsberg@ahejlsberg
11 Mar 2025
Thrilled to announce... devblogs.microsoft.com/types…
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