felixrieseberg/gist:b1c1c4c8cfcc379a2712811f3f09a0a9

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At Slack, we use one JavaScript code base to build a multi-threaded desktop application, routinely interacting with native code. Managing large JavaScript codebases is challenging — we need a guarantee that the individual pieces fit together. In the desktop world, a small mistake is likely to result in an application crash.

To that end, we adopted TypeScript (a statically typed superset of JavaScript) and quickly learned to stop worrying and love the compiler.

In this talk, Felix will give a detailed account of porting a large code base from ES6, explain why exactly [TypeScript is so popular](https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages), what the downsides are, and how you would slowly adopt it in your development.
	At Slack, we use one JavaScript code base to build a multi-threaded desktop application, routinely interacting with native code. Managing large JavaScript codebases is challenging — we need a guarantee that the individual pieces fit together. In the desktop world, a small mistake is likely to result in an application crash.

	To that end, we adopted TypeScript (a statically typed superset of JavaScript) and quickly learned to stop worrying and love the compiler.

	In this talk, Felix will give a detailed account of porting a large code base from ES6, explain why exactly [TypeScript is so popular](https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages), what the downsides are, and how you would slowly adopt it in your development.