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Anders Hejlsberg

What Anders Hejlsberg thinks about design

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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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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Anders Hejlsberg has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA language should be designed by a small group of people rather than by one person.

    Their wordsI think early on we decided that we want to have a team of people design this language, not just one.

    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 5th of 26 in this recording

  3. Our readingLanguage design is ninety per cent the same work every time and ten per cent new, which is why the experience carries from one language to the next.

    compilers

    Their wordsAnd quite honestly, language design is 90% the same and 10% new for for pretty much every language. Every language you build still has to have a compiler. Compiler is still built in a pretty much the same way.

    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording

  5. Our readingThe job of a design group is to try to shoot down every new idea; the ones that survive the attempt are probably the good ones.

    Their wordsAnd everyone was cognizant of okay, if someone comes up with a new idea, now it's our job to try to shoot it down. What What's wrong with this idea? Do Do you know what I mean? And if it could go if it could stand the the test of of that, then it was probably a decent idea.

    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 7th of 26 in this recording