TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript, and adds static typing and class-based object-oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of C# and creator of Delphi and Turbo Pascal, worked on the development of TypeScript. TypeScript can be used to build JavaScript applications for execution on the client-side or server-side (Node.js). Some key features of TypeScript include static typing, support for type definitions of existing JavaScript libraries, and support for object-oriented programming.