Why TypeScript Exists

You'll discover why TypeScript was created - Microsoft's 2012 answer to JavaScript's scalability crisis, designed by Anders Hejlsberg, the mind behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#. You will see how runaway codebases turned silent type errors into business-critical bugs, and understand TypeScript's core thesis: optional static typing layered on top of JavaScript, a superset rather than a replacemen