This post looks at the Closure Compiler, Google's tool from the mid-2000s for adding types to JavaScript. It looks at how its focus on minification led to very different design choices than TypeScript, and how this and a few other factors led to TypeScript becoming the ubiquitous solution for JavaScript + types. The Closure Compiler represents an alternative path that JavaScript could have taken, and it gives us perspective on TypeScript as it exists today.
I don’t script, but I do enjoy scripting book covers. Almost always a bird, but sometimes a badger, the black and white ones, or some other cute animal.
I don’t script, but I do enjoy scripting book covers. Almost always a bird, but sometimes a badger, the black and white ones, or some other cute animal.