- Meet Anders Hejlsberg
- Creator of C# and TypeScript
- A self-taught programmer
- Joined Microsoft
- Saw that Java dominated everything
- Microsoft needed a modern language for its new platform .NET
- But there were legal conflicts around Java
- He said: “Fine… I’ll build something better.”
- Wanted a language that is:
> Easy like Java
> Powerful like C
- Launched C# in 2000
- it became one of the most widely used languages for:
> Enterprise applications
> Game development (Unity)
> Windows software
But He Wasn’t Done…
- Later noticed problems with JavaScript:
> Hard to scale for large applications
> Bugs and maintainability issues
- Created TypeScript
- Designed it to:
> Work with existing JavaScript (no breaking changes)
> Compile into plain JavaScript
Today, TypeScript is widely used in Angular, React, Node.js and more
Adopted by major companies like Google, Microsoft, Airbnb
didn’t code it alone
but without him, it wouldn’t exist.
absolute legend 🔥