Good news for the developers as the much awaited update for the typescript is in the town. Typescript, an open source programming language by Microsoft has been experiencing different issues which are tackled ( or seems to be) in the latest version 0.9, labeled as a first step in the 0.9.x series by TypeScript program manager Jonathan Turner.

The new version is free of previous bugs, better third party integration has been introduced especially cloud 9 and web matrix integration problems are sorted out. Peculiar and special features in “biggest update to typescript to date” include support for generics and tool scalability along with a flexible capacity to code enterprise level projects. Inculcation of generics has been considered as the most important and useful update in the Typescript as this feature will allow the developers to code with ease and efficiency. Generics will also include the support for collection classes. Generics has automatically increased the maximize code reuse, type safety, and performance.

Constants overloading has also been introduced in the new version. Constant overloading now allows the developer to deploy the DOM functions like createElement, getElementsByTagName. Another core level improvement includes enhanced support for external machine loaders which will help the developers to work in the third party environments like Node.js. Assigning explicit values to the modules is now possible in using the “export =” feature of TypeScript 0.9. All the bugs related to the enumerations have been sorted out and the new version offers a typed way of handling enums, with the finite collections of constant numeric values.
The most befitting improvement is introduced in the TypeScript compiler. The developers were never happy with 0.8 release as depicted in the reviews and feed backs in the CodePlex. Microsoft has taken a keen interest to amend the obvious shortcomings and bugs in the compiler. The new version provides suggestions, potential bug analysis reports, support for large codebases as developers can now easily handle up to 100k+ lines of code. Command line compiler is being sidelined but the Microsoft as there is a rapidly declining use but still experts are criticizing the slow running response and interface problems in the command line compiler of the new release.

Typescript 0.9 under the license of Apache 2.0 open source license .The new version is available online for free. You can get your hands dirty with some coding in the new environment and check what 0.9.x series has to offer you.