Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

It has been a year or so since Microsoft announced its plans to move TypeScript to a new, native runtime based on the Go language. Those first releases were unfinished (you had to compile them ...

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 ...

TypeScript 7.0's release candidate, published today by Microsoft, marks the moment a 14-year-old compiler becomes something structurally new: a native binary that takes the VS Code codebase — 1.5 ...