Mike and Chris take a walk down a dangerous and controversial road — the state of Javascript in modern web development.

Plus a frank look at TypeScript, blaming developers, your emails, and much more.

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Show Notes:

Feedback

• Jay wants to know how the Android update cycle and the device manufacturers’ different versions of Android affect developers.
• Carlo’s email
• Isak asks what we think about Typescript
• Charles writes in with some more info on Haskell
• Matt shares an interesting article about Adobe
• Matt (diff Matt?) is working on an iOS app that will have a server backend component and is wondering how to make a profit on the app — given the hosting costs over time.

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• NCEES licensing exam for Software Engineers
• Windows Phone 8 SDK oddness
• TypeScript / The Javascript Problem

The Language Itself

• No classical inheritance.
• Too loose

Developers

• Too stupid / lazy??
• Too sloppy??

Tool of the Week

• Typescript

Book of the Week

• Basic Category Theory