What Anders Hejlsberg thinks about Microsoft

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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1. 13 May 2026

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

   TypeScriptopen sourceJavaScript

   Their wordsAnd 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?

   ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording