Announcing TypeScript 2.0 RC

Looks good!

I don't do too much front end development but I like Typescript for another reason: the language is very readable and I have started to use it as executable easy to read 'pseudocode' when I write, specifically for many of the examples in a new book I am writing on cognitive science. Concision and readability are important. I have started using Julia for the same reasons: the code is very concise and readable.

There are a lot of other new features as well that were introduced in the 2.0-beta release: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What's-new-in-T...

I wish it were easier to gradually convert a codebase from JS into TS. You'd think it'd be straightforward, what with the claim that TS is a superset of JS, but the flag that makes the TS compiler accept regular JS files was only added in 1.8, and mixing and matching is still much clumsier than I'd like.

TS is also a bit too strict about requiring d.ts files for everything.

I've been on the fence about switching to TS in my project, but it's a bit passive aggressive towards plain JS code.

Is this a release candidate in the traditional Microsoft sense or the Angular 2 sense?