Happy Birthday TypeScript

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On October 1, 2012, Microsoft released the first version of TypeScript, a language built on top of JavaScript that would revolutionize the way we create applications thanks to its typing system.

Two years later, on October 7, 2014, the first stable version was released, under the code 1.1.0.1. Since then, the adoption of TypeScript has grown exponentially to position itself among the 5 most used languages.

https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years

A look back

TypeScript was conceived at a time when JavaScript was considered too fragile to build large applications with. In the presentation of TypeScript Anders Hejlsberg, belonging to his development team, stated the limitations that JavaScript had at that time:

• Being a language focused on “scripting”.
• The lack of strict typing.
• And the absence of elements such as interfaces and classes.