Announcing TypeScript 5.6

- Disallowed Nullish and Truthy Checks

- Iterator Helper Methods

- Strict Builtin Iterator Checks (and --strictBuiltinIteratorReturn)

- Support for Arbitrary Module Identifiers

Open source UI components and visual style guide to create consistency and beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites

TypeScript Origins: The Documentary features core contributors and community members like Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Luke Hoban, Daniel Rosenwasser, Ryan Cavanaugh, Amanda Silver, Matt Pocock, Josh Goldberg & many more!
It also covers adoption stories and insights from JetBrains, Xata, AG_Grid, Deno, Visual Studio Code and Tech at Bloomberg. 

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• Productivity and Performance improvements – Visual Studio is more responsive and usable, and projects load faster.
• Improved tooling to profile and understand your applications performance.
• Updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, including improved Vue.js and ESLint support, and right-click context menu productivity improvements.
• More C++ productivity improvements in IntelliSense, Code Analysis, and Just My Code debugging.
• Improved performance for Visual Basic integer manipulation.
• Azure Development improvements, including continuous delivery for Azure Functions, better experience managing secrets via Key Vault, and ability to configure Application Insights during initial site creation.
• More Library Manager features for managing Web Projects’ client-side library files.
• Mobile Development improvements such as faster Android incremental builds and inclusion of Xamarin.Essentials to facilitate building native apps. 

Typescript 2 milestone is at 99% - 1 issue remaining 

Today we're going to take a look at TypeScript, a compile-to-JavaScript language designed for developers who build large and complex apps. It inherits many programming concepts from languages such as C# and Java that add more discipline and order to the otherwise very relaxed and free-typed JavaScript

node-prune is a small tool to prune unnecessary files from ./node_modules, such as markdown, typescript source files, and so on.