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Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

DartlangTV · 14.4K views · 2013-01-10 · 43:14

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A Channel 9 conversation recorded at GOTO 2012 between Anders Hejlsberg (TypeScript) and Lars Bak (Dart). They discuss the two languages and different approaches to making JavaScript development safer, including runtime type checking.

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HN points to it as a rare side-by-side of the TypeScript and Dart designers, often to show how the two approaches to improving JavaScript differed.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2014–2024

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okareaman · 2021-12 · Strong recommendation

Another really great video is Anders and Lars Bak around the time Typescript and Dart came out (about the same time.) In this video Anders explains to Lars why TypeScript will win the race to fix JavaScript's drawbacks. Lars was really happy with their Dart VM (as he should be) and didn't really want to hear how TypeScript would prevail. The thing about Anders is that he's usually right and he was. Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart [VIDEO]

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mwattsun · 2022-03 · Recommendation

If you're curious, this is an informative video of a debate between the designer of TypeScript and the designer of the Dart VM about which was the better approach. Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart [VIDEO]

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dundarious · 2022-02 · Recommendation

This is really some armchair psychoanalysis on my part, totally not worth anything in the way of intellectual attention, but I always found this interview with both Typescript and Dart leads to be interesting. [VIDEO] I can't help but infer that Lars is quite often a little bit frustrated with the emergence of Typescript. But on top of it being embarrassing for me to imagine up such personal rivalries based on hardly anything, you could view the interview as Dart-hostile given the interviewer.

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