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TypeScript is now a 'top 10' language – just in time for the 'feature complete' 3.6 beta

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I'm waiting for them (whoever them is) to sort out the 'optional semicolon' mess. I'm all for optional semicolons, but they really should only be inserted if you *don't* have a clearly unterminated expression when you get to the end of the line (bring back BCPL which got this right). But I bet that would break most if the incomprehensible and badly written javascript on the web

Fun thing to do. Go into firefox about:config and set javascript.options.strict and watch the warnings flow

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