Typescript is a Programming Language

af5667
May 29, 2024

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This question came up because I found myself wanting to call Typescript a programming language and found myself pausing thinking of someone out there yelling that’s not right.

TLDR — Typescript site itself calls it a language and so do 2 popular colloquial sources (Stack Overflow, Github)

Official

Typescript

Refers to itself as a programming language

https://www.typescriptlang.org/

Wikipedia

Javascript is referred to several times

Colloquial

Stack Overflow Report

Calls Typescript a “language.” TBD on whether it’s a programming, scripting, or markup language, but ok to say language.

https://archive.ph/SnkAP

State of the Octoverse

https://archive.ph/vtqkm

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