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Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft

The Sourcegraph Podcast

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Typskirt - What's the Gap Between Public Perception and External Perception?

typescript has a design document that says like, these are the sort of ten golden rules of what typescript will be and won't be. So e will try to never break those. But public perception and external perception is very different. And so we tic ip tas at a back an infinite backwards compatibility guarantee to a reasonable extent. If you had configuration set up to day, well, omenear five years ago, it would still probably work, but get a lot of compiler errors. A which can also sometimes be a bit of a noose around typescrip's neck.

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