Definitely a great way to lower the barrier to entry. The eject feature is sweet since it removes the risk of lock in. Looking forward to integrated unit testing libraries in a future release. While you're at it let's add redux. :)
A great acquisition of a group of really smart people doing interesting work. This is the kind of company Apple should have been looking at acquiring if it wants to ever truly compete with Google in mapping and online services in general.
"... Sometimes he really doesn't help the issue by somehow managing to charge head first into even more trouble..." or a camera! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8haZzvaE8)
I agree. I've been going through his tutorials and they are great. Fire up sublime with node.js running as a simple http server and you can quickly follow along building simple apps that will get you up to speed.
This is great to hear. I have only just started reading up on TypeScript. But I would love to know if there will be support for a decimal type. I have been following Google's work on Dart and it doesn't look like they will be implementing it last I checked. Such a feature would be a great differentiator.
A team member could comment better than I, but unless TypeScript adds some kind of operator overloading, supporting a new type would be difficult since it compiles to normal JavaScript. Even then, creating a performance decimal type without native code support might be difficult.
Yeah performance is another issue. But providing a type that compiles to a defined type that implements decimal representation would be very useful. GWT pulls off something similar by compiling the Java BigDecimal to a JavaScript equivalent.
