Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
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We switched out Javascript for Typescript with React, introduced Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps, and added others for specifically selected purposes, such as Scala for our data science and machine learning team.
Canva on how its stack moved from Java and JavaScript to TypeScript, Kotlin and Scala
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