The Web is all around us - and there's more of it every day. Soon we'll have a web-powered refrigerator and a web-enabled toaster. And where there's web there's JavaScript - with all its great and not so great features. Whether you like it or not, if you are a developer today, you are a JavaScript developer. So there's a problem, because lots of people don't really like writing JavaScript, so there's a whole host of tools that will help us to avoid that. TypeScript is a language that is not afraid of JavaScript, it embraces all the good things and adds a lot of its own goodness. After three years of active development, it's getting to where it set out to be, and is becoming the thing we all need - a tool for high speed, high quality development of web-oriented code.