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Orta Therox

Orta Therox

Orta is a developer/designer who works on web-powered games. Prior to that, he worked on the TypeScript team in Microsoft. He has a decade of open source contributions ranging across many eco-systems, helps maintain a dependency manager for iOS, built Danger in many languages, contributes to working groups like GraphQL and in core teams like Jest, Svelte and React Native. You've probably seen his open-source design work in the React/TypeScript ecosystem.
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What is "TC39: Type Annotations" aka the Types as Comments proposal
TypeScript Congress 2023TypeScript Congress 2023
27 min
What is "TC39: Type Annotations" aka the Types as Comments proposal
A deep dive into the proposal which could de-fork TypeScript and bring all us users back to being "JavaScripters, but with some TypeScript types." We'll cover the author's motives, how it could work, why now and how it is going.ort
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How Does the TypeScript Team Try to Avoid Negative Effects on the JS Ecosystem
JSNation Live 2020JSNation Live 2020
33 min
How Does the TypeScript Team Try to Avoid Negative Effects on the JS Ecosystem
TypeScript is becoming one of the dominant ways in which people write JavaScript. The goal of TypeScript is to augment and not replace JavaScript – so how does the team ensure that the future of JS is always JS.
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