Revisions to typescript tag wiki excerpt

just simplify. ES modules are a thing now so it's complicated to explain (in an excerpt) what exactly TypeScript is contributing w.r.t. modules. also, technically, you could say that TypeScript _does_ "provide" classes, since it supports downlevelling class syntax to ES5, but again, TMI for exerpt

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edited Oct 13, 2023 at 18:54

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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that transpiles to plain JavaScript. It adds optional types, classes, interfaces, and modules to JavaScript. This tag is for questions specific to TypeScript. It is not used for general JavaScript questions.

I get that Grammarly doesn't think this a word, but "transpires" is definitely not what we want

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edit approved Sep 14, 2022 at 16:05

Connor Low

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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that transpirestranspiles to plain JavaScript. It adds optional types, classes, interfaces, and modules to JavaScript. This tag is for questions specific to TypeScript. It is not used for general JavaScript questions.

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edited Sep 2, 2022 at 12:10

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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that transpilestranspires to plain JavaScript. It adds optional types, classes, interfaces, and modules to JavaScript. This tag is for questions specific to TypeScript. It is not used for general JavaScript questions.