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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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I've Been There, You Know?

I think a lot of Adams wounds, honestly, were like self inflicted on a number of levels. And I think one part of it was just like never having clear leadership. It took us too long to switch to JavaScript. We should have gone straight to TypeScript. So that was a mistake. Then we just focus so much on this very broad definition of extensibility - you could come in, run your JavaScript on the main thread and you can do anything. That's something we want to make sure that we get right as soon as possible with Adam Z.

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