<story><title>Announcing TypeScript 3.0</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/announcing-typescript-3-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>That doesn&amp;#x27;t seem right. I don&amp;#x27;t know anyone who uses Azure outside of a .NET-centric programming job. Azure always seemed to be like &amp;quot;hey if you heard good things about AWS and need a place to deploy your code but you&amp;#x27;ve never touched anything outside the Microsoft ecosystem, come try Azure!&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve seen it advertised on Stack Overflow a lot, but I have never even thought of looking into it, for the same reason I have no reason to install Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>mattferderer</author><text>Microsoft wants &amp;quot;Developers, Developers, Developers!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;TypeScript makes JavaScript easier &amp;amp; less buggy IMO. The more people developing with TypeScript, the better chance they use Microsoft&amp;#x27;s other tools. Some of those tools cost money. Some also make deploying with Azure really easy &amp;amp; enjoyable. Azure is their big cash cow.&lt;p&gt;The more MS tools you use &amp;amp; the better perception of the company you have, the easier it is to find yourself just wanting to stay in their ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>sbjs</author><text>More and more projects are adding TypeScript definition files for us, and many are even being written (or rewritten) using TypeScript directly! I honestly think TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. In fact, I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder what Microsoft&amp;#x27;s long term goal is with TS. They&amp;#x27;re making such &lt;i&gt;blazingly fast&lt;/i&gt; progress with it, that I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder if this is the &amp;quot;incubation&amp;quot; period of the language, and when it&amp;#x27;s finally &amp;quot;ready to hatch&amp;quot;, they&amp;#x27;re going to do something big. Almost like this phase of TypeScript&amp;#x27;s life would traditionally be done inside MS privately, but they wanted to benefit from giving back to the community, from trust building within the community, and from being able to say &amp;quot;we provided the most advances to the JavaScript language out of any contributors by far&amp;quot; and somehow use that as leverage. Maybe they&amp;#x27;ll make an official TC39 proposal that TypeScript syntax be integrated into JavaScript, complete with a de facto free and open source implementation that browsers and Node.js are free to use to strip types live at compile-time. I just don&amp;#x27;t get it. They made VS Code, they bought Github, they made TypeScript... where are they going with this? I honestly wonder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>korijn</author><text>We primarily use Azure, and only 1 .NET legacy app lives there. Everything else is Python and JS! I&amp;#x27;m enjoying Azure a lot!</text></comment>
<story><title>Announcing TypeScript 3.0</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/announcing-typescript-3-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>That doesn&amp;#x27;t seem right. I don&amp;#x27;t know anyone who uses Azure outside of a .NET-centric programming job. Azure always seemed to be like &amp;quot;hey if you heard good things about AWS and need a place to deploy your code but you&amp;#x27;ve never touched anything outside the Microsoft ecosystem, come try Azure!&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve seen it advertised on Stack Overflow a lot, but I have never even thought of looking into it, for the same reason I have no reason to install Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>mattferderer</author><text>Microsoft wants &amp;quot;Developers, Developers, Developers!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;TypeScript makes JavaScript easier &amp;amp; less buggy IMO. The more people developing with TypeScript, the better chance they use Microsoft&amp;#x27;s other tools. Some of those tools cost money. Some also make deploying with Azure really easy &amp;amp; enjoyable. Azure is their big cash cow.&lt;p&gt;The more MS tools you use &amp;amp; the better perception of the company you have, the easier it is to find yourself just wanting to stay in their ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>sbjs</author><text>More and more projects are adding TypeScript definition files for us, and many are even being written (or rewritten) using TypeScript directly! I honestly think TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. In fact, I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder what Microsoft&amp;#x27;s long term goal is with TS. They&amp;#x27;re making such &lt;i&gt;blazingly fast&lt;/i&gt; progress with it, that I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder if this is the &amp;quot;incubation&amp;quot; period of the language, and when it&amp;#x27;s finally &amp;quot;ready to hatch&amp;quot;, they&amp;#x27;re going to do something big. Almost like this phase of TypeScript&amp;#x27;s life would traditionally be done inside MS privately, but they wanted to benefit from giving back to the community, from trust building within the community, and from being able to say &amp;quot;we provided the most advances to the JavaScript language out of any contributors by far&amp;quot; and somehow use that as leverage. Maybe they&amp;#x27;ll make an official TC39 proposal that TypeScript syntax be integrated into JavaScript, complete with a de facto free and open source implementation that browsers and Node.js are free to use to strip types live at compile-time. I just don&amp;#x27;t get it. They made VS Code, they bought Github, they made TypeScript... where are they going with this? I honestly wonder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtones</author><text>Azure is aimed at Enterprises and developers inside those companies who already run a lot of Microsoft tech and are familiar with Visual Studio. They do really well in that space because they already have a lot of mind share there, and that is a very big opportunity for them monetarily in the next few years as a lot of Enterprises move to the cloud.</text></comment>