S14:E6 - What is Typescript and when should you use it (Dan Vanderkam)
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Show Notes
In this episode, we talk Typescript with Dan Vanderkam, principal software engineer at Sidewalk Labs, and author of Effective TypeScript. Dan talks about the difference between working on a personal project versus a project at scale, what typescript is, and how it can help you once you move to those larger projects.
Show Links
- Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
- TypeScript
- Sidewalk Labs
- Effective TypeScript
- The Secret Guide To Computers
- BASIC
- Mount Sinai
- Alphabet Inc
- AlphaGo
- JavaScript
- Type Systems
- C#
- Turbo Pascal
- Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Third Edition
- TypeScript Handbook
- Basarat's TypeScript Deep Dive
- Basarat's T
- Programming TypeScript
- TypeScript Quickly
Dan Vanderkam
Dan Vanderkam, a principal software engineer at Sidewalk Labs, has built engineering teams and processes for all of its products and spinouts, all of which use TypeScript. He previously worked on open source genome visualizations at Mt. Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine and on search features used by billions of users at Google (try "population of france" or "sunset nyc"). He has a long history of working on open source projects, including the popular dygraphs library and source-map-explorer, a tool for visualizing JavaScript code size. He is also a co-founder of the NYC TypeScript meetup.