Back to the Future - with TypeScript

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History and roadmap for TypeScript through mid‑2019 with concrete features and demos: shows rest tuple types from 3.0 for strong typing of variadic functions, explains the controversial unknown type as safer than any, highlights TypeScript 3.5 Omit helper for dropping properties, and demonstrates how to transpile to JS and run with Node using VS Code. Roadmap covers Jan–June 2019 priorities: better tooling, adoption across frameworks and backends, and continued community‑driven feature requests; companies using it include Google, Netflix, GitHub and Reddit.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 1:13What is TypeScript?
3. 3:50Why JavaScript needs TypeScript
4. 8:59TypeScript demo walkthrough
5. 14:41TypeScript 3.0 updates
6. 21:58TypeScript 2019 roadmap
7. 24:27Q&A and closing

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