Boris Cherny on TypeScript

In Episode 384 of “Software Engineering Radio,” Boris Cherny, author of Programming TypeScript, speaks with Nate Black, explaining how TypeScript can scale JavaScript projects to larger teams, larger code bases, and across devices. TypeScript is a gradually typed language, allowing you to add compile-time verification to a JavaScript project bit by bit. TypeScript aims to be practical by catching common mistakes but without adding too much burden on the programmer. Other topics include: structural typing, type refinement and programmer intuition, when to use escape hatches and how to ban them, interoperability with JavaScript, and using TypeScript with frameworks such as Angular, React, and React Native. We provide summary excerpts below; to hear the full interview, visit http://www.se-radio.net or access our archives via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio.