hejlsberg

In 2012 Hejlsberg announced his new project TypeScript — a superset of JavaScript.

Microsoft hired Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal and Delphi) to architect their C# /.

Think of Andy Hertzfeld for the Macintosh, John Carmack for Doom/Quake, Anders Hejlsberg for Turbo Pascal and Delphi, or Aston Motes at Dropbox.

MS Java (later transformed to C#) - both MS Java/J++ and C# as well as Typescript were guided by Anders Hejlsberg (former Turbo Pascal fame).

In 2012 Hejlsberg announced his new project TypeScript—a superset of JavaScript.

I'm a Rust contributor and I think C# is a fantastic language; it's my dream to tempt Anders Hejlsberg away to Rust.

Should I say how much I regret Hejlsberg left Borland to join Microsoft?

In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined Microsoft.

I think it matters (though maybe not for everyone) that Anders Hejlsberg (of Delphi and C# creation fame) is behind the architecture of the language.

It may not be possible to design a best-in-class language without some kind of top-down planning, or even without an auteur like Matz or Hejlsberg managing the vision part.

And I’ve talked to people like Anders Hejlsberg about this.

I don't know if Gosling and Hejlsberg have even met!

I've been to at least 200 software conferences in my life and never heard speakers like Linus, Ken Thomson, RMS, Gordon Letwin, DHH, Anders Hejlsberg mention "correctness guarantees".

It seems Microsoft has influenced JavaScript/ES v6 with their TypeScript intermediate language lead by Anders Hejlsberg.

Alternatively they could try to poach Anders Hejlsberg, the guy behind C#, and have him make an even better language.

Hejlsberg (TurboPascal) who was responsible for J++, Windows Foundation Classes and C#.