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News about TypeScript

• TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators

  Forthcoming upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript, now in beta, promises to be smaller, faster, and simpler.

• New TypeScript operator finds coding mistakes

  TypeScript 4.9’s ‘satisfies’ operator validates that the type of an expression matches some type, catching many possible errors.

• TypeScript turns 10 years old

  Despite initial skepticism, Microsoft’s typed JavaScript not only survived but continues to thrive after a decade.

• TypeScript 4.8 fixes file watching on Linux, macOS

  Update to Microsoft’s typed JavaScript also introduces improvements to how intersection and union types work and how TypeScript narrows types.

• TypeScript 4.4 brings performance boosts

  Due in late August, upgrade to Microsoft’s typed JavaScript also introduces control flow analysis and spelling suggestions in plain JavaScript files.

• Yarn package manager will be rewritten in TypeScript

  A comprehensive roadmap for Yarn 2 describes how the JavaScript package manager will become more developer-friendly