TypeScript with Jon Turner
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles down to regular JavaScript. Jon Turner maintains the TypeScript package at Microsoft. Why is TypeScript useful? Does compile-time checking add any real efficiency?
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July 29, 20151h 0m
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Show Notes
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles down to regular JavaScript. Jon Turner maintains the TypeScript package at Microsoft.
- Why is TypeScript useful?
- Does compile-time checking add any real efficiency?
- The current TypeScript compiler is written in TypeScript–how did you compile that compiler?
- TypeScript was created to build large, manageable JavaScript applications–how did Microsoft due that before TypeScript?
- What language design preferences does Anders Hejlsberg have which are evident in TypeScript?
- Google’s Angular 2.0 project used TypeScript–is this part of a broader story of collaboration among tech giants?
Links:
- Developer Ergonomics
- Bret Victor, who writes about Developer Ergonomics
- asm.js: optimizable, low-level JavaScript
- TypeScript playground
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