TypeScript and open source at Microsoft (Interview)

Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language.

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Featuring:

• Anders Hejlsberg – GitHub, X
• Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript.

• Roadmap · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
• Microsoft/TypeScript
• Welcome to TypeScript
• Follow Jonathan Turner on Twitter
• Follow Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter
• Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Turbo Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Handbook - Welcome to TypeScript
• Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
• palantir/eclipse-typescript
• atom-typescript
• borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
• Home | DefinitelyTyped
• TypeScript/spec.md at master · Microsoft/TypeScript
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation): Niklaus Wirth: 9780130224187: Amazon.com: Books
• Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Architectural Overview · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
• The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
• The Changelog #148: The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand
• The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
• Monaca
• Gerrit Code Review

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