Startup Heap details how it initially failed to switch from CoffeeScript to TypeScript programming language.

Civet is described as a kind of modern CoffeeScript for TypeScript, which may not sound promising if you remember CoffeeScript as I do. Before you write it off, though, consider what Civet has to ...

TypeScript (like CoffeeScript) will actually work with existing frameworks and libraries — any JavaScript can just be pasted into TypeScript and should just work.

I got interested in CoffeeScript many months ago, while TypeScript was still in beta (and, as of this writing, it's still in beta). I will definitely take a look at TypeScript, but I really like the ...