Content by Amanda Silver (6)

Amanda Silver reflects on major technical shifts behind Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, focusing on VS Code’s open-source architecture and extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted coding changed what developers expect from an editor and its connected cloud services.

Amanda Silver reflects on how Visual Studio Code grew from an open source editor into a platform shaped by its extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot changed expectations for developer tools by bringing AI-powered coding assistance into everyday workflows.

Amanda Silver explains why open-sourcing TypeScript mattered, focusing on how community collaboration helped it evolve alongside major JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue, and pointing viewers to the TypeScript GitHub repository.

Amanda Silver explains why early C#-to-JavaScript tools like Script# didn’t stick, and how the need to align with the JavaScript runtime and the open web ecosystem helped shape the path toward TypeScript for building web apps at scale.

Amanda Silver shares the origin story behind the “long long integer” name, using VBA data types as the backdrop for how this numeric type ended up with its famously awkward wording.

Amanda Silver explains why Microsoft created TypeScript, focusing on the problems it set out to solve for large JavaScript codebases—adding structure and scalability while keeping compatibility with the existing web ecosystem.