Microsoft updates its superset of JavaScript, known as TypeScript, with a slew of new features, including the addition of generics.



From All About Microsoft:

TypeScript .9 is available for download from the TypeScript site. The latest update, which Microsoft officials described as the biggest TypeScript preview update to date, includes a bunch of new features in the language, compiler and associated tools.

The biggest new feature is the addition of generics, which allow developers to take advantage of better static error reporting and improved tooling "in many cases without any additional type annotations," officials said. The TypeScript compiler also has been re-engineered so it works better with large projects (in excess of 100,000 lines of code) in an interactive environment.

  Microsoft delivers biggest update to date to TypeScript