Finished two retrospective blog posts on the journey of require(esm) before 2025 ends: joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2025/12... joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2025/12...

Big news in this year's GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript is now the most-used language on GitHub! We are thrilled and grateful to see the TypeScript and JavaScript community continue to grow and thrive. 🚀 Read up more at github.blog/news-insight...

Tonight will be one of the best nightlies of the TypeScript Native Preview ever. 1) @andrewbran.ch fully rewrote the language server infra into a snapshot model. No more data races. It's so cool 2) Sheetal added build mode (-b), and it's even _concurrent_ build mode. 10x+ on dt-tools, hot and cold

Today we're announcing previews of the native port of TypeScript! These nightly previews will be available on npm and the VS Code marketplace! npm install -D @​typescript/native-preview npx tsgo --version Read up more on our blog!

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

It hasn't happened yet (merging today!!!), but I wrote a big ol blog post on the giant migration of DefinitelyTyped to a @pnpm.bsky.social monorepo! I am super excited for this. Again thank you @andrewbran.ch, Nathan, @zkochan.bsky.social and everyone else. jakebailey.dev/posts/pnpm-d...

Next week is gonna be a fun week Soon the scourge of baseUrl, paths, and typesRoot will be purged, replaced with "how about we actually use node_modules like everyone else" (thank you Andrew and Nathan for your efforts, and of course @zkochan.bsky.social and contributors for pnpm)

The Release Candidate of TypeScript 5.2 is now out to try! Test it out and let us know if you run into any issues!

We just released TypeScript 5.2 Beta! Check out - 'using' Declarations - Decorator Metadata - Easier Tuple Type Notation - Inline Variable Refactoring - Comma Completions in Objects and more! Try it today!