Small Bytes: Putting the Type in TypeScript (Premium)
As a decades-long fan of Anders Hejlsberg and having struggled to see a way forward for Windows desktop apps, I’m understandably curious about TypeScript. Hejlsberg led the development of this free and open-source superset of JavaScript, by far the most popular programming language in the world, specifically to address JavaScript’s biggest problem: its weak type system. That is, where J…