Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/11
For my link archive: [WayBack] Tech Notes: TypeScript at Google.
A good discussion, also about alternatives (like Kotin, Scala, GTW) is at [WayBack] TypeScript at Google | Hacker News
Via [WayBack] TypeScript at Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894764 #typescript #google #microsoft #javascript – Adrian Marius Popa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/14
Cool research paper from a while back but still soo relevant:
The project page for an ICSE’17 paper, To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs for JavaScript
JavaScript is also a dynamically typed language for which static type systems, notably Facebook’s Flow and Microsoft’s TypeScript, have been written. What benefits do these static type systems provide?
Source: [Archive.is] On the Effectiveness of Static Typing in Detecting Public Bugs
Other saved links:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack/Archive.is] Slashdot drew my attention to this ressearch … http://ttendency.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/type_study/ An argument for languages like Delphi. – Roland Kossow – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/07
Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of indirection atop assembly. Alas, the popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. I’ve gone through some common features that probably should’ve stayed in C and my justification for saying so. The features are listed in rough order from (I hope) least to most controversial. The idea is that C fans will give up when I call it “weakly typed” and not even get to the part where I rag on braces. Wait, crap, I gave it away.
Great re-read towards the end of the year: [WayBack] Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad
Via: [WayBack] Old and busted: emacs vs vi. New and hot: Language war, everybody against everybody else. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/05
It might sound like I’m late in the game, but remember that blog posts are usually scheduled like a year in advance.
So I found out a long time ago (I think it’s Matthijs ter Woord who attended me) about Visual Studio Code.
At the start [WayBack] it was more limited (from memory something like C#, TypeScript, Java Script languages and frameworks Node.js and ASP.NET 5) than my other development environments but now it’s much richer.
It’s based on the Electron framework which I kew from the Atom.io editor and Koush‘s framework Electron Chrome that wraps Chrome Apps in Electron so he ensured Vysor would live after Google will kill Chrome Apps.
Oh it’s free and runs multi-platform which I like a lot (and was one of the reasons to start using Atom.io): Mac OS X, Windows and Linux are supported.
So here are a few links to get started:
I got reminded a while back** that it is now supported by OmniPascal [WayBack] which I like because of my Turbo Pascal -> VAX/VMS -> csh -> Delphi -> AS/400 -> .NET background.
Like Visual Studio Code is updated often, the Omni Pascal blog [WayBack] shows regular updates and I like it a lot better than the Lazarus IDE (I’m not a visual RAD person: I’m a RAD code person) especially the refactorings.
So start playing with it. I will post more about my Visual Studio Code experience in due time.
–jeroen
** via [WayBack] Finally: OmniPascal 0.11.0 released – Implement an interface via key stroke …
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/29
As it got live last week, this is required reading if you do web development:
–jeroen
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