TypeScript is a super set of JavaScript that adds static typing with optional type annotations.

It was created at Microsoft and first released in 2012.

TypeScript ESLint enables ESLint and prettier to run on TypeScript code.

Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O'Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP.

He's also a maintainer of TypeScript ESLint.

In this episode, Josh speaks with Pavel Borkowski about the history of TypeScript,

why it was created, some of its current limitations, the TypeScript ESLint project, and more.

Pavel Burkowski is a tech lead and a software engineer with a background in launching products

in startups and big companies.

He's also the founder of Flat Social.

Check out the show notes to follow Pavel on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit his personal website,

powell.io.

Music website, powell.io. Hi, Josh, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So let's start with the first question about your

background a little bit more. How did you get into programming and what were your first

steps in the world of building software? So my dad was a computer science professor, which

meant throughout high school, at least the first half. I didn't want to do anything involving

computer science. But I was really into Photoshop and graphic design, and I ended up wanting

to make a website for myself, my little, we called them Forum Signatures, little Photoshop images I made

on the internet. So I got into HTML and I took a Java class in high school and kind of fell in love

with it. So I went to university for a four-year computer science programming degree and haven't looked

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