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A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come.

Drawn from what Anders Hejlsberg said

SubjectsTypeScriptopen sourceJavaScriptMicrosoft
What these subjects mean

TypeScript A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Microsoft The company and its bets: Copilot, the office tools business, and what agents do to both.

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A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Anders Hejlsberg actually said

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  1. Anders Hejlsberg

    Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow

    And we we full well knew that there was absolutely zero chance that we would appeal to the JavaScript ecosystem with a proprietary programming language licensed from Microsoft. No. No one was going to come. It had to be open source. There was just no two ways about it, right?

    Where this was said

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    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com

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