In early 2017, Chris Krycho was working at one of the few startups using Ember, searching for a way to bring types to the emerging language. His primary goal became solving semantic versioning for TS. As Chris kept iterating, striving to combine multiple programming worlds, other engineers joined him in the pursuit until eventually, the Ember TypeScript Core team was born. 
Today, Chris is a lead engineer at LinkedIn, a father, husband, runner, music composer, and whiskey enthusiast. His current goal is to ensure Ember Polaris has first-class TypeScript support. Aside from offering new dad advice to Robbie, Chris also describes what can become a superpower for new developers willing to work.
In this episode, Chris talks with Chuck and Robbie about best-case uses for TypeScript, a defense of complicated library code, Chris’ ultimate goal with software engineering, and his advice for programmers on the rise. 

Key Takeaways

[01:10] - A brief intro to Chris. 

[02:26] - A whiskey review. 

[10:57] - How the Ember TypeScript Core Team originated. 

[19:11] - When Chris believes TypeScript isn’t necessary. 

[26:52] - Chris’ lengthy experience with programming languages. 

[28:39] - Chris’ advice to Robbie as a new father. 

[30:59] - How Chris responds to Robbie’s issue with TypeScript.

[43:50] - What a first-class component template is.

[52:14] - A music and Hot Ones-themed whatnot. 

[57:43] - The one thing Chris always plugs for developers. 


Quotes
[16:27] - “TypeScript support is pretty essential to modern web development. Even if you’re not using TypeScript in your web app, you are using TypeScript because under the hood, all of the tooling that exists across the ecosystem, more or less, uses TypeScript.” ~ @chriskrycho
[19:39] - “There’s no project in which TypeScript is necessary. There are very few projects in which it might not be useful, but that’s going to depend on your team, your coding style, your mental frame, your background, etc.” ~ @chriskrycho
[60:45] - “Getting deep on subject matter as well as having a general breadth is a really powerful one-two punch in terms of being able to grow as an engineer, to actually understand what you’re working on.” ~ @chriskrycho
Links

Chris Krycho

ChrisKrycho.com

LinkedIn

Ember

LinkedIn Learning

Kent C. Dodds 

Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style Whiskey

W.L. Weller

The Glenlivet 14 Year Old

Four Roses Bourbon

runspired

Chris Manson

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Runspired vs. Chris Manson on Solving the Number One Open Source Maintainer Dilemma

Discord

EmberConf

Ember TypeScript Core Team (Typed Ember)

Dan Freeman

James Davis 

Derek Wickern

Mike North

Olo

Flow

JavaScript

TypeScript 2.1

Robert Jackson

Ember TypeScript on GitHub

DefinitelyTyped on GitHub

Glint 

JSX 

Vue.js

Svelte

Ember Observer

ember-cli-babel

IntelliJ IDEA

Jet Brains

VIM

Visual Studio 

Ruby

Python

Sorbet

Stefan Penner

Repple

Greg Vaughn

Elixir


Glenn Vanderburg 

Microsoft 

GitHub

Vanilla JS

Fortran

PHP

Rust

Swift

Hascal

Elm

Discourse

Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types

ember-try

Redux

Mark Erikson

Codebase

Sam Selikoff 

Apollo GraphQL

Chris Krycho’s music

Chris Krycho’s on SoundCloud

SpaceX

Chris Garrett (zuraq)

ShopTalk Show Ep 512: Web Whiskey Crossover with Chuck Carpenter & Robbie Wagner

New Rustacean Podcast 

Prolog

Julia Evans


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Chuck Carpenter

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