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Typescript was about bringing the culture of static languages to a language design that explicitly rejected it. Large JS codebases already existed in 2006 (Gmai
by puppet-master 5y ago
Typescript was about bringing the culture of static languages to a language design that explicitly rejected it. Large JS codebases already existed in 2006 (Gmail, ..)
- lifthrasiir 5y agoAs far as I know Gmail used the Closure compiler which can be considered as a spiritual precursor to TypeScript. Also several Google service frontends were in fact based on GWT and written in Java.