Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? 1.7 added 'this' typing improvements, and it looks like 1.8 is adding 'this'-based type guards.
I'm talking about the usual js `this`, the covertly passed parameter, not typescript `this`, type of own class.
Funny they focused so much on classes that they reached 1.8 without so much as touching js most unique feature, flexible `this`.