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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.
InfoWorld

Microsoft pushes optional type annotations for JavaScript

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...
TechRadar

Microsoft wants to make a potentially huge change to JavaScript

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the software ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Proposes Big JavaScript Change: 'We Do Expect Skepticism'

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...