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 ...

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 ...

For all JavaScript’s prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don’t like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something ...