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meh. While some constructs are great (class , modules , ...) some others dont make sense at all, unless you are using Visual Studio. Is typescript a javascript for Visual Studio or a language you can really use without MS tools ? Also the fact that you cant compile to 1 file automatically all your scripts and you need either AMD or Common JS defeats the purpose of having modules for client side scripting.

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IntelliJ already provides decent support for it, including auto-completion. I assume with the new pull-based type checker similar things can be done for vim, emacs, etc.

It's possible to instruct tsc to compile into called-closure style modules, then concatenate them if you really want that.

That is exactly what we are doing with an in-house TypeScript framework that we have written. The compiler checks the dependencies recursively and then concatenates them in a single file. It is careful not to duplicate dependencies, too.

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