Today, Microsoft announced the release of TypeScript 7.0, a major update to its strongly typed version of JavaScript.

Build type-safe JavaScript applications in less time with Microsoft’s native port of TypeScript built with Go.

Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.

TypeScript 7.0 became stable on July 8, 2026 — and for most of the tens of millions of professional web developers who depend on it daily, a single npm install -D typescript command now cuts build ...

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The rewrite of TypeScript in Go is not actually a rewrite, but a 1:1 port of the existing source code. In this way, the development team wants to ensure that the existing features are also available ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...