Five things about TypeScript 

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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It’s a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript and was originally created out of a need for a more robust tooling experience to complement JavaScript language developers. TypeScript makes it easier for developers to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript programs that run in any Read more

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Open Source Weekly: Updated Quantum SDK, deep learning for autonomous driving, and more 

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4-minute read + demos This week Microsoft released updates to our Quantum Development Kit, including support for macOS and Linux, additional open source libraries, and interoperability with Python. Learn more about what’s new with Microsoft Quantum, plus new docs, demos, and more, in this edition of the Open Source Weekly. TODO Open Source Program Guides: Read more

Now on GitHub: The Autonomous Driving Cookbook from Microsoft 

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At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s why I’m happy to present the Autonomous Driving Cookbook which is now available on GitHub. The Autonomous Driving Cookbook is an open source collection of scenarios, tutorials, and demos to help you quickly onboard various aspects of Read more

Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available 

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3-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. Anything else you’d like to hear about? Let us know in the comments. Visual Studio Code now shipping with Anaconda: For everyone from enterprise programmers to data scientists, Python Read more

Open Source Weekly: Lots of documentation for your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios 

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4-minute read + demos This week we’re highlighting some of the content from docs.microsoft.com, our home to thousands of pages of documentation, from Apache to Zendesk.  For technical documentation, API reference, code examples, quickstarts, and tutorials on your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios, check out the inventory here. Other docs you’d like to see? Read more

Open Source Weekly: added Java support in VSCode, the latest PowerShell Core release, and more 

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5-minute read + demos We’re back from a holiday hiatus and there’s lots to catch up on, including this week’s release of PowerShell Core 6.0, which is cross platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open source, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. Learn more about what’s new in this PowerShell Core release, plus Read more

Top questions about Terraform and Azure 

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3-minute read Recently, I teamed up with HashiCorp’s Nic Jackson to deliver a high-level look at using HashiCorp’s Terraform with Microsoft Azure. We covered a quick background of HashiCorp’s founding, what industry needs inspired Terraform’s creation, and how Terraform helps build an easy-to-follow template of one’s infrastructure – as code! We also demonstrated the use Read more