TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
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TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
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#2The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
Re: TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
#3The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
that's maybe the second or the third most important factor. the first is aggressive marketing that microsoft does for its products.
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#4The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
that's maybe the second or the third most important factor. the first is aggressive marketing that microsoft does for its products.
That unfortunately hasn’t helped C# become more popular outside of Microsoft legacy shops even when it did go cross platform and open source.
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#5The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
Which, frankly, has become an unwieldy mess over the years.
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#6The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
Incremental adoption and syntax close to JS
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#7Brace yourself, a new trend is near.
Re: TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's maybe the second or the third most important factor. the first is aggressive marketing that microsoft does for its products.
That unfortunately hasn’t helped C# become more popular outside of Microsoft legacy shops even when it did go cross platform and open source.
What is a "Microsoft legacy shop" ?
Re: TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
#9>TypeScript never set out to build a separate, distinct, and prescriptive language. Instead, TypeScript had to be descriptive.
Sadly, the majority of people writing Typescript rarely care about descriptive and readable code these days. Somehow the focus shifted from using types to better understand complex systems through the code itself, to writing whatever polymorphic union type abomination that yields the best IntelliSense auto-completion in VSCode.
Re: TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
#10The post mentions one of the most important factors in TypeScript’s adoption: it launched, from the start, with good tooling.
Microsoft always had great tooling