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
The Aarthi and Sriram Show
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JavaScript - The One Language That Is Probably Dominated in Problem
JS was conceived at Netscape in the early 90s, and it was put together in a hurry. There were no classes, there's no object going at programming in JavaScript,. That was a big problem. But then Google built the V8 engine and introduced the notion of JIT compilation to JavaScript. And they proved us all wrong that JavaScript actually can be incredibly performant.
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