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As we start our TypeScript journey, we delve into the background of this powerful programming language. To truly grasp the capabilities of TypeScript, it is essential to understand its roots and the context in which it evolved. We’ll take a brief trip through the history of JavaScript and ECMAScript and how these played into the development of TypeScript in late 2012. This brief background will help us get both a clearer sense of the problems TypeScript solves as well as the reasoning behind some of the evolution of TypeScript itself. Understanding these key points, around the need for more scalable velocity, and how testing and docs can be delivered in the simplest possible way to solve this will give us a strong foundation for fully understanding the direction and outcomes of the TypeScript language.
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Beattie-Hood, B. (2023). How TypeScript Came to Be. In: Modern TypeScript . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9723-0_1
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