On: Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration

[hungryhobbit]

ECMAScript community is actually dipping their toes in the water of adding typing to the spec, and it's at Stage 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations.

Now of course, this would only add type syntax to the language, not true processing: there's nothing in the spec about actually handling them. Still, it's a step in that direction, so I wouldn't say "very unlikely to ever happen" ... "still a long ways off (if ever)" would be more accurate.

[nosianu → hungryhobbit]

How is type annotation syntax a "step in that direction" of making an entirely new language??? They merely standardize on what is already there.