Typescript
TypeScript allows developers to compile a superset of JavaScript to plain JavaScript on any browser, host, or operating system. TypeScript is completely open source which means the software source code is freely available and may be redistributed or modified. TypeScript uses the same syntax and meaning of code that JavaScript uses and uses existing JavaScript codes to incorporate JavaScript libraries to the software. TypeScript then creates simple JavaScript codes that can run on any web browser or engine that supports ECMAScript 3 or newer. TypeScript supports a number of different features from JavaScript and allows developers to build bigger and stronger programs and components. TypeScript offers users and developers an extensive number of tools including static typing and text editors, along with user created tools, to use when compiling their JavaScript code in the TypeScript software. TypeScript is being developed on GitHub and can be used on ay JavaScript host. TypeScript can be downloaded for free from GitHub. TypeScript makes it easy for any developer who uses JavaScript a lot to compile codes to plain JavaScript on any platform. Though TypeScript isn't necessarily as flexible as JavaScript, it still lets you compile to plain JavaScript on whatever browser you want, host you want, or operating system you want because it is on an open source. TypeScript also has a bunch of different tools for the developer to use to create their desired result including static typing to lower the number of mistakes you make and improve analyzed codes, and code refactoring to change the existing code into something new but keeping its external behavior. Being able to use TypeScript with existing JavaScript codes and libraries makes it easy to compile codes with this software and its support with ECMA helps make it easy to create better content. TypeScript can be downloaded right from GitHub for free which is a positive in itself.
- Compile to plain JavaScript * Highly productive development tools * Support for new and evolving JavaScript features
- Easy to learn and use * JavaScript super set * Lots of tools you can use in your development
- No package library * Not as flexible as JavaScript is