In our 2020 Developer Survey results, one of the most tracked statistics is the Most-Loved Language. As it has for several years now, Rust is number one. But coming in at number two is TypeScript, a strongly typed superset of JavaScript, edging out Python by a hair. We wanted to find out what about TypeScript makes it so dang lovable, so we reached out to Ryan Cavanaugh, the principal engineering
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