mrspeaker Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Nothing against TypeScript (it's very interesting) - but just wondering why you chaps decided to dedicate a whole forum section to it? Are you working on the project, or for microsoft or something? Why not CoffeeScript, or ClojureScript... or any/all transpiled languages? Emhuang33 and lamilar66 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Because we're using it every single day, so can offer help with it. If there is enough demand for Coffee, etc we will of course cover that, but I rarely see it used for game dev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrspeaker Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Again, I don't care and have no intention of starting flame wars (If there is a flamewar, I'm going pure javascript over EVERYTHING but I'd never heard of anyone using TypeScript for games, but know of a lot of CoffeeScript games... https://github.com/search?q=coffeescript+game&type=Repositories == 433 resultshttps://github.com/search?q=typescript+game&type=Repositories == 33 results (full disclosure - I just finished writing a book on making games in CoffeeScript!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I know plenty using TS for games Like I said, if there's interest we'll add Coffee too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeNumber8 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Maybe there should be an forum dedicated for all higher level languages that compile down to JavaScript - there are many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezelia Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I'm interested in TypeScript but can't find the forum in question IMHO The most interesting thing with TS it the use of VS integrated debugger and powerful intellisense, I used many editors : notepad++, sublime text, eclipse, aptana ... but nothing was better than VS ... CoffeScript is good too but I didn't find any editor that support the features above . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I removed the board It was created the first day I made this forum but the boards all changed a lot, to avoid there being lots of empty boards. We can break down the coding board into specific languages when the forum gets more popular. I agree re: TS - it's clean, structured and the output JS was excellent. But using Visual Studio was the cherry on the cake (unless you use a Mac of course!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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