Session Abstract

Programming languages are living things, and they grow and change as time goes by. In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is defined as the process whereby distantly related organisms independently evolve similar traits to adapt to similar necessities. Which basically means that if something is a great idea somewhere - it's likely it's a great idea elsewhere as well. So, many features that appear in new versions of programming languages are actually features that are "inspired by" other languages - ideas that have been proven to work, and that make the programming experience richer and better. In this presentation, we'll take a look at some of the new features that are coming in C# 12 and TypeScript 5 (5.2 specifically) - and how they are inspired from each other, and from other programming languages and platforms as well.

Wekoslav Stefanovski

Wekoslav Stefanovski has more than two decades of professional developer experience using a variety of development technologies. Has been using C# since the first public beta, and has a long and fruitful love relationship with it. Has been using JavaScript since the previous millennium and has a long and fruitful love/hate relationship with it. Currently, works at Sourcico as Head of development. He is passionate about functional programming, static code analysis, compiler design and code quality metrics.