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TypeScript is a programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft that adds optional static typing to JavaScript. Designed by Anders Hejlsberg and first released in 2012, TypeScript is a strict syntactic superset of JavaScript: every valid JavaScript program is also valid TypeScript, and the TypeScript compiler transpiles typed code down to plain JavaScript for execution. It is intended chiefly for building and maintaining large-scale JavaScript applications.

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First Released
2012 1
Paradigm
Object-oriented, functional, imperative and generic 1
Significance
A typed superset of JavaScript maintained by Microsoft, widely adopted for large-scale web application development; every valid JavaScript program is also valid TypeScript. 1
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TypeScript is a strict syntactic superset of JavaScript: every valid JavaScript program is valid TypeScript.

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