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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by jabits on Thursday March 20, 2014 @01:19PM (#7437035)
Well, it seems Microsoft is doing similarly with Typescript, except instead, waiting for the spec to catch up. I like both ideas.
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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by Touche on Thursday March 20, 2014 @02:36PM (#7437634)
I don't know what you mean by that... stuff like classes were already in the harmony proposal phase before Typescript implemented them. Stuff like type hints won't be in JS ever.
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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by michaelwww on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:34PM (#7438006)
At least to date, Microsoft stresses the "TypeScript is just JavaScript." New language features are added to ES6 and then wrapped with types in TypeScript.
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