
Building Chrome Dev Tools with Jack Franklin
Software Unscripted
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TypeScript and JavaScript Code Base Optimization
The idea that people would be doing front end web development and not primarily using JavaScript was like 10 years ago, just completely unthinkable. And now it's like, Oh, actually, most people are using TypeScript now professionally. So I think a combination of the easy adoption and maybe a greater ecosystem of types based on my anecdotal experience helped me kind of start to pick it up and ramp up with it. Yeah. These will never be proven. But those are two out of the three big reasons. The third part is VS code and the fact that it just shipped with like, I'm not going to say flawless, but like seamless, right types. There was no work to get it working
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