
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Husband, Father, Developer, Gamer. I work on @TypeScript at @Microsoft. Delegate to @TC39. All opinions are my own. he/him
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http://github.com/rbuckton 13-05-2008 17:05:21
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๐ข TypeScript 5.7 is here! Now with โ Better checks for uninitialized variables โ Smarter tsconfig lookup in editors โ Improved startup time โ Stricter checks for JSON imports โ Extension rewrites for relative imports and more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/annโฆ






your TypeScript just got 10 times faster. We sat down with Anders Hejlsberg to ask questions library authors, power users, tooling makers, and compiler contributors might have.




ECMAScript excitement ๐ Congrats to Ron Buckton on advancing the Enum proposal to Stage 1 at TC39 today ๐ This aims to bring the good parts of TypeScript enums to JavaScript plus enhancements such as new datatypes & potentially runtime performance improvements ๐

After 18 years at Microsoft, with roughly a decade of that time working on TypeScript, I have unfortunately been let go in the latest round of layoffs. I need to take a few days to process before I start looking for work. Thanks to everyone who's been part of my journey so far.



ECMAScript excitement ๐ Congrats to Ron Buckton on conditionally advancing Explicit Resource Management to Stage 4 at TC39 today ๐ It introduces `using` declarations and the Symbol.dispose protocol to deterministically and ergonomically release resources ๐
