The Visionary Behind Programming Languages: Anders Hejlsberg's LEGACY Of Transforming Code Writing

Anders Hejlsberg discusses his career building Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript, and shares his thoughts on the future of programming languages.

In this episode, we talk to Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of programming languages such. as C#, Typescript, Turbo Pascal and Delphi, on a life spent on building programming languages, the history of Java, his systems and setup, and what the future of programing languages looks like. Anders is someone we have looked up to for a big part of our lives, and this episode was a treat for us! In this episode, we cover: 01:28 Anders Hejlsberg’s first computer, programming language, and virus 05:26 What got Anders into building his own programming language 09:34 Are 80s/90s programmers better than present-day programmers? 11:56 Turbo Pascal 2 and discovering hash tables 14:33 Delphi vs. Visual Basic 19:40 Why did Java fail? 27:18 Building C# and .NET framework: concept to implementation 32:05 The #1 design decision Anders Hejlsberg is most proud of 35:37 Dynamic programming languages and Microsoft 38:41 The problem that led to the discovery of TypeScript 45:29 Why is TypeScript so popular? 51:40 How does Anders Hejlsberg write code? 56:18 What does his coding setup + gear look like in 2023? 01:01:20 AI and LLMs 01:09:41 Unsolved problems with programming languages today 01:13:26 Why spend 40 years on programming language design? 01:18:23 Thoughts on Rust, Golang, Zig, and Solidity 01:24:52 His daily workflow and what he spends most of his time on 01:26:03 Will there be another programming language by Anders Hejlsberg? Subscribe To Our Show On Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-time-show-by-aarthi-and-s… Subscribe To Our Show on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2CuAlPdZGhV1yxShmdcYh6 Check out Aarthi and Sriram: twitter.com/aarthir twitter.com/sriramk