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Ignite 2020: New Windows enhancements for developers coming

March 6, 2021September 22, 2020 by Kareem Anderson

The company paid recognition to its former flagship platform Windows by announcing a plethora of developer-friendly features at its enterprise cloud conference.

What's so great about Visual Studio Code?

January 16, 2021October 17, 2019 by Maourice Gonzalez

TypeScript 3.0, Microsoft’s extension of JavaScript, his general availability

August 1, 2018 by Arif Bacchus

TypeScript 3.0 comes with a few breaking changes, and a new scalable way to structure projects.

Microsoft Edge celebrates open source ChakraCore's first anniversary

January 13, 2017 by Laurent Giret

The open source Edge’s ChakraCore javascript engine is a year old, and the company is still focused to bring its JavaScript engine to macOS and Linux.

Microsoft quietly launches HoloJS, create holographic apps using JavaScript and WebGL

December 19, 2016 by Laurent Giret

HoloJS, Microsoft's new framework for creating holographic apps using JavaScript and WebGL should make it easier for developers to embrace the Windows Holographic platform.

TypeScript 2.0 Release Candidate announced, production version that much closer to release

August 30, 2016 by Michael Cottuli

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds things like classes and interfaces to provide convenience to programmers.

Microsoft is bringing Edge's ChakraCore javascript engine to Linux and OS X

July 27, 2016 by Kareem Anderson

Microsoft announced the first experimental implementation of the ChakraCore interpreter and runtime for x64 Linux and OS X 10.9+.

Microsoft rolls out TypeScript 2.0 beta

July 11, 2016 by Arif Bacchus

Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out TypeSript 2.0 beta.

Edge Javascript improvements coming with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, scoring well on "synthetic" benchmarks

June 22, 2016 by Kareem Anderson

Data collected over the past year has helped the Microsoft Edge team develop updates to its JavaScript performance in Edge and Chakra in preparation for its Windows 10 Anniversary Update release.