Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0 with a native Go-based compiler that the company says delivers roughly tenfold performance improvements while maintaining compatibility with existing TypeScript ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...

Microsoft's year-plus effort to move TypeScript from its JavaScript-based compiler implementation to a Go-based native codebase has reached Release Candidate status, with the new compiler now ...

Microsoft has released the beta version of TypeScript 7.0. This brings the first release with a compiler and language service written in Go ever closer. Despite the beta label, TypeScript 7.0 is said ...

Microsoft has announced the availability of TypeScript Native Previews, featuring early previews of a native TypeScript compiler and tool set based on the Go language. The port has achieved “a 10x ...

Microsoft has now enabled TypeScript 7 Beta within the TypeScript SDK by default in Visual Studio 18.6 Insiders 3. This update will impact any project that uses the built-in SDK such as TypeScript ...

The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript. Babel, a ...

TypeScript 7.0 became stable on July 8, 2026 — and for most of the tens of millions of professional web developers who depend on it daily, a single npm install -D typescript command now cuts build ...