The latest edition of this language landed in time for the holidays, and it packs a down right fierce punch (yes, a “Hadoken” reference). Many of you are drawn to TypeScript for the safety it provides; you like to be defensive, and that’s okay. For people who prefer finesse, though, we’ll see how the engine has been upgraded with features that allow chaining together even more powerful FP combos than before, without breaking a sweat.

With async/await, we’ll see how we can take full control of our blocking strategy, effortlessly.

New to FP? We’ll take a couple of quick rounds through integrating types into functional, and functional onto types.

Look out Scala; a new Challenger Appears.