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EP 34 - Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and creator of Typescript, C#, Turbo Pascal and Delphi on programming languages, and the power of working on long term projects
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Is It Going to Be Nullable Types?
In C sharp from the get go now we've done some work now, but this is like 20 years later. Now functional languages have made a lot of progress in that space. And we have two in TypeScript. Back then, if you declared a string, any string could also be null. There was nothing you could do to save yourself from that. And any object could also benull. That meant that things could blow up in your hands at any point in time. It sure would have been nice to try to exercise nulls a bit more.
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