Google's support for Microsoft's TypeScript in Angular was a key turning point for the young extension to JavaScript.

If you want to learn the TypeScript programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos, and websites.

Here's a partnership that may come as a surprise to many: Microsoft and Google are working together to help make Angular 2 -- the next (and somewhat controversial) version of Google's JavaScript ...

Your First TypeScript Angular 2 App Here's how to use Angular2 and TypeScript to retrieve JSON objects from an ASP.NET MVC controller and populate your page with the results.

Looking ahead, the Angular team plans to provide developers with more guides and examples to help them learn Angular 2.0 faster.

Other slow-burning but popular technologies over the past decade include AngularJS and Microsoft's TypeScript and Xamarin. Angular and Swift demonstrate the influence of tech giants.

Angular uses a variant of JavaScript called TypeScript, so named because it mixes strong type checking with JavaScript’s general structure and approach. It’s like adding suspenders to your pants.