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		ww520 on June 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TypeScript 0.9 released This looks very interesting. Any chance it would compile to asm.js? That would be awesome.

ixtraz on June 18, 2013 [–]

They are going to make it happen.

http://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/438243

dangoor on June 19, 2013 | [–]

The trouble is that, at the moment, asm.js is not a garbage collected environment, whereas TypeScript is much closer to JS than it is to C.

Static typing alone is not sufficient to make asm.js a good target for a language, I think.

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