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To be fair, they did somehow manage to take over javascript while nobody was looking.

• ripped_britches 2y ago
  Do you mean the non-product people that designed and wrote typescript?
  • jonny_eh 2y ago
    Exactly, and they did it while no one at Microsoft was looking at them.
    • thanksgiving 2y ago
      That's not what I see from the outside Everytime versioning comes up. My understanding is Microsoft marketing has full control over what constitutes a major / minor version bump like when typescript 4 is released vs typescript 3.9 (just an example). The people who build typescript don't even control their own version numbers.
      • setr 2y ago
        According to this https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/why-typescript-doesnt-follow-strict-semantic-versioning https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/why-typescript-d... The versioning logic is fairly simple (although kind of pointless afaict?). X.1 —> X.9, and instead of going to .10 it simply increments major number. With average releases every 3 months, then major versions are simply being bumped roughly every 30 months. I think functionally it’s just a really awkward date-versioning on a 30 month calendar instead of 12
        • int_19h 2y ago
          It's an old school versioning system that was very popular for DOS software. I'm not surprised that TypeScript, being ultimately still an Anders Hejlsberg project, would adopt it.