Microsoft emphasizes JavaScript tools, libraries in TypeScript 2.0

Microsoft is now shipping TypeScript 2.0, an upgrade to the company's typed superset of JavaScript. It can be downloaded for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, accessed by NuGet, used with with Visual Studio Code, or installed via NPM.
Version 2.0 focuses on developer productivity, alignment with the ECMAscript standard underlying JavaScript, and support for JavaScript libraries and tools, the TypeScript team said.[ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld looks at 17 JavaScript editors and ID