https://dsheiko.com/tags/webdev/ Recent content in WebDev on Dmitry Sheiko's Web Development Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dsheiko.com/weblog/harmony-with-typescript/ Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://dsheiko.com/weblog/harmony-with-typescript/ On the way to harmony Not so long ago Microsoft announced a new language targeting front-end developers. Everybody’s first reaction was “Why on Earth?!” Is it just Microsoft taking a shot at Google? Is that a trick to promote Visual Studio? But anyway, what’s wrong with JavaScript? Why is everybody so keen to replace it? For a language designed in just two weeks, JavaScript is freakishly powerful and flexible. It was released in December 1995 and standardized as ECMA-262 in June 1997.