24th May 2019

TypeScript 3.5 Fixes ‘unbearably slow’ Type-Checking Bug

New release candidate addresses regression in TypeScript 3.4 that impacts build times and editor operations TypeScript 3.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular typed superset of JavaScript, is now available in a release candidate. The update is set to add optimizations for type-checking, addressing a serious speed regression introduced with the previous release. With TypeScript 3.5, Microsoft’s TypeScript development team focused on optimizing code paths and stripping down certain functionality to make TypeScript faster. Compile times have fallen compared to TypeScript 3.4; code completion and other editor operations should be “snappier” as well, the TypeScript developers noted. In making these […]
20th May 2019

Microsoft Web Template Studio

Microsoft has introduced the Visual Studio code extension Web Template Studio (WebTS). The open source extension, designed to create cloud-based web apps and is available as a very early nightly build. A new extension for VS Code is in the starting blocks: Microsoft Web Template Studio (WebTS) is ready for download as a very early nightly build. The goal of WebTS cloud-based full-stack web development using Azure services. WebTS released as a Nightly Build at a very early stage for feedback from the developer community. What Is Microsoft Web Template Studio? The new extension Web Template Studio should serve the […]