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by jconley 5002 days ago
The Typescript syntax looks shockingly like Adobe's ActionScript. Next up, Adobe releases an ActionScript to Javascript cross compiler?
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aaronblohowiak 5002 days ago
Do you know the history of ES4? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#ECMAScript.2C_4th_Ed...
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Zecc 5001 days ago
This guy agrees with you (and so do I btw): http://blog.blakebarrett.net/2012/10/typescript-vs-actionscr...

And yes, they're all variants of ECMAScript. It's a mess!

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