[rbellio]

I've been testing it out and I like it so far. I personally don't enjoy writing JavaScript in text editors and the tools like PHPStorm, while being decent don't really give me the slick development environments that I've come to enjoy.

Since I do a lot of Windows and .NET web app development for my day job, I really enjoy the fact that Microsoft is putting a concerted effort into not only adding more support for JavaScript, but also for looking at the state of JavaScript and looking to improve the experience for people like me.

In Anders introduction to TypeScript, he mentions the gap between .NET development and JavaScript and hints that this is just the beginning of bridging that gap.

Rather than being a language that hides the underlying structure (a la ASP and ASP.NET) it is much closer to native JavaScript development. I'm really excited to see where this might go and have my fingers crossed that it only improves the state of JavaScript development.