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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

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TypeScript

The shortest JavaScript program is still a TypeScript program. Microsoft had to kind of look around corners at the standards body and guess how their version of modules or decorators should work. There's some sentiment that why don't they standardize TypeScript? Well, they've been clear they don't want to. They have a proprietary investment, it's valuable.

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