Introduction
Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to answer for. Perhaps not as well known as Bjarne Stroustrup (C++) or Dennis Ritchie (C), he’s responsible for the creation of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, J++, and C#. And, as the creator of the language that the majority of .NET developers have been using for the past ten years, it is fair to say that he knows a fair bit about language design.
October 1, 2012 heralded the start of the journey for another Hejlsberg creation. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that brings to it an additional object-oriented-like syntax familiar to .NET programmers that compiles down into JavaScript that any browser can run today. As I write this three weeks since its announcement, it’s interesting to see how, with hindsight, ...
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