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The public language specification is a [[Draft document|draft]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1-Q3V0fQ7KSit97HnZoKVygDxpWzEYW0U/edit |title=AtScript Primer |publisher=Google Docs |accessdate=January 28, 2015}}</ref> It states that plain JavaScript code ([[ECMAScript|ES5 or ES6]]) is valid AtScript code, as it is a [[superset]] of Microsoft's TypeScript. AtScript builds on ECMAScript 6 with types (through TypeScript), and extends it by [[Java annotation|annotations]] (type annotations, field annotations, metadata annotations) and type introspection. To sum up, AtScript is ECMAScript 6 with types, annotations and introspection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/04/improving_javascript_google_throws_atscript_into_the_mix/ |title=Improving JavaScript: Google throws AtScript into the mix |date=Nov 4, 2014 |accessdate=January 28, 2015}}</ref>
The name “AtScript” comes from the @ (“at”) symbol used for annotations in many languages (Dart, Java) and the “script” word (as in JavaScript, TypeScript, [[CoffeeScript]]).
In March 2015, the Angular team and Typescript blog announced that AtScript development was abandoned and that features of AtScript would be implemented in TypeScript.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAeffWJEIc |title=State of 1 x - Pawel Kozlowski & Lucas Galfaso |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=March 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/03/05/angular-2-0-built-on-typescript.aspx |title=Angular 2: Built on TypeScript |publisher=Microsoft Corporation |accessdate=March 5, 2015}}</ref>
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