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TypeScript: Industrial-strength JavaScript Historians who reflect on JavaScripts emergence as a dominant programming language in the 21st century may find themselves quoting Donald Rumsfeld: You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might wish to have.For growing numbers of programmers, JavaScript is the army we have. As we send it into the field to tackle ever more ambitious engagements both client and server side, we find ourselves battling the language itself.[ JavaScript rules the Web -- but how do you harness its power? Find out in InfoWorlds special report, The triumph of JavaScript. | Keep up with hot topics in app dev with InfoWorlds Strategic Developer blog. ]JavaScript was never intended for large programs built by teams that use sophisticated tools to manage complex communication among internal modules and external libraries. Such teams have long preferred strongly typed languages like Java and C#. But those languages virtual machines never found a home in the browser. It was inevitable that JavaScript alternatives and enhancements would target the ubiquitous JavaScript virtual machine.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here infoworld/article/2871804/application-development/typescript-industrial-strength-javascript.html#tk.rss_all
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:31:06 +0000

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