TypeScript 2.1 ups ease of use, adds expressive code

Microsoft released TypeScript 2.1 Wednesday with upgrades that reduce the friction of starting new projects, more powerful type-checking, and tools to write more expressive code.
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript compiling to plain JavaScript. A release candidate of version 2.1 arrived about a month ago.[ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld looks at 17 JavaScript editors and IDEs and 22 JavaScript frameworks ready for adoption. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with Inf