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'''AtScript''' is a [[JavaScript]]-based [[scripting language]] extending [[Microsoft]]'s [[Typescript]] and [[Source-to-source compiler|transcompiling]] to JavaScript. It was introduced in October 2014 at the [http://ngeurope.org/ ng-europe conference] by the developers of [[Google]]'s [[AngularJS]] web development framework as the language that the upcoming [[AngularJS]] 2.0 would be built with.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdnh8QSPPk |title=Miško Hevery - Keynote on AtScript at ng-europe 2014 |publisher=YouTube |date=October 28, 2014 |accessdate=January 28, 2015}}</ref> In March 2015, Microsoft announced that many of AtScript's features would be implemented in the TypscriptTypescript 1.5 release, and that Angular 2.0 would be built on pure Typescript.<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 |date=March 5, 2015|accessdate=December 18, 2015}}</ref> Development of AtScript and the AtScript specification will not continue.

The name “AtScript” comes from the @ (“at”) symbol used for annotations in many languages.