Behind Rust, TypeScript came in as the second most loved programming language in Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey. I decided to join the hype. TypeScript was developed by Microsoft and released…

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TypeScript was developed by Microsoft and released in 2012. It is a superset of JavaScript, meaning it is comprised of JavaScript’s features and offers additional features as well. TypeScript is written in files with the extension .ts . All code in these files gets run through the TypeScript transcompiler.

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