Re:Announcing TypeScript 3.0
by SenHeng on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:12PM
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This is nothing like coffeescript.
Coffeescript was an entirely separate language that just happens to compile to Javascript. The whole fiasco with Coffeescript 1 -> 2 was that 1 only compiled to ES5 and couldn't support ES6+. Migrating to Coffeescript 2 is basically the same amount of work as migrating to modern day Javascript. You can't even write Javascript within a Coffeecript file without it breaking.
Typescript IS Javascript. You can copy paste code both ways and they'll still work.
Coffeescript was an entirely separate language that just happens to compile to Javascript. The whole fiasco with Coffeescript 1 -> 2 was that 1 only compiled to ES5 and couldn't support ES6+. Migrating to Coffeescript 2 is basically the same amount of work as migrating to modern day Javascript. You can't even write Javascript within a Coffeecript file without it breaking.
Typescript IS Javascript. You can copy paste code both ways and they'll still work.