An update on Angular’s TypeScript 7-powered Compiler

Alex Rickabaugh & Mark Techson [Alex] I joined the Angular team in 2015, around the original Angular 2.0 release. One of my first tasks was to convert source code from JavaScript into a relatively new (at the time) language from Microsoft, known as TypeScript . TypeScript would go on to become both an industry standard and one of Angular’s greatest strengths, providing the structure and safety for the team to scale the framework.