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I'm willing to bet MS has built runtime type support into the Chakra VM. The question is whether they will do it in a propitiatory way or push it as an extensi
by cek 14y ago
I'm willing to bet MS has built runtime type support into the Chakra VM.
The question is whether they will do it in a propitiatory way or push it as an extension of ECMAScript and try to get other VMs to implement it.
- kombine 14y agoThe worst thing is that they already have the runtime that is language-agnostic, performant, has a great standard library and so on. When they tried making it available on the Web, the so-called "open stadards" won. Which are in fact a bag of shit.
- freehunter 14y agoOn the Techcrunch article also posted to HN recently, the designer said they would not be baking TypeScript into Chakra, but rather letting it compile to JS and running it the same way everywhere.
- untog 14y agoThe TechCrunch[1] article states otherwise: "Asked whether Microsoft might do something to prioritize TypecSript in Internet Explorer, Lucco, the chief architect of IE’s JavaScript rendering engine Chakra, says no." [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-previews-new-javascript-like-programming-language-typescript/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-previews-new-java...