Announcing TypeScript 1.7

Re:Announcing TypeScript 1.7 by Keats on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:11AM (#10654762)

You can use TypeScript just for the types and hand the es6 files to Babel after.

Also TypeScript existed before Babel and there are some features not supported by Babel (modules, public/private). See this issue for more details https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1641

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Re:Announcing TypeScript 1.7 by pluma on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:39AM (#10654870)

That issue is back from when Babel was still called 6to5.

Babel didn't support JSX, decorators or type annotations. Now it does. Babel 6 is even more modular, lending itself even more to extension than Babel 5 did before.

There's nothing stopping MS from adding TS extensions to Babel.

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Re:Announcing TypeScript 1.7 by Keats on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:29AM (#10655108)

I'm guessing Microsoft is not keen on starting from scratch for no visible benefits for them. You could try opening another issue to see if they changed their minds though

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