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Reconstructing TypeScript, part 1: bidirectional type checking

Published: 15 September 2021
Tags: javascript

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, that includes compile time type checking (not runtime, unfortunately?), is written in itself, and compiles to plain ol' JavaScript. If you're familiar with it, you might've thought, how does it actually handle types? In this specific article of the series, Jake Donham implements bidirectional type checking via an AST, among other things.

An Intro to JavaScript Proxy

Published: 15 September 2021
Tags: javascript

Mostly commonly in the software engineering world, a proxy can be thought of as a middleman between two points. This is pretty obvious in a networking environment, but how does it apply in JavaScript? In this thorough article, Travis Almand explores how a JavaScript proxy can be used to intercept an Object's functions, presenting "them as ways to extend some common JavaScript tasks with more control over data".

Turing Oversold

Published: 14 September 2021
Tags: historical

Been a while since we've had a historical article. In this one, Jürgen Schmidhuber navigates the history of computers, illuminating the works of the giants whose shoulders Turing stood upon, underlining their substantial contribution to the creation of computers.