Episode 87: Typescript

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Intro

Typescript

News/Links

• Virgin Galactic Goes to Space again with a passenger
• https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-sends-first-test-passenger-on-spaceflight.html
• Hot Reload All the Things!
• https://hackernoon.com/hot-reload-all-the-things-ec0fed8ab0
• How FlightRadar works
• https://habr.com/en/post/440596/
• The writing of this AI is so human that it’s creators are scared to release it
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ai-writer-disinformation-1.5030305
• https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqovhz/discussion_should_i_release_my_mnist_model_or/

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• How the Economic Machine Works and How It Is Reflected Now
• http://www.petracm.com/pdf/120714/A%20Template%20for%20Understanding,%20How%20the%20Economic%20Machine%20Works%20and%20How%20it%20is%20Reflected%20Now%20by%20Ray%20Dalio%20of%20Bridgewater.pdf
• Patrick: 
  • Salvation by Peter F Hamilton
  • https://amzn.to/2EyoY5i

Tool of the Show

• Jason: 
  • Sierra Death Generator deathgenerator.com
• Patrick:
• Overcooked (Switch, Xbox One, PS4)

Typescript (51:30)

• Recap: strong/weak typing
• Typing Transpilers
• MyPy (python)
• Typescript (javascript)
• Advantages
• Safely upgrading dependencies
• Catch errors before runtime
• Describe function parameters
• Disadvantages
• Compatibility with untyped libraries
• Transpile time
• Deployment complexity
• Transpiling to Javascript
• tsc
• Babel
• Webpack-ts
• IDE
• VSCode
• Sublime