DevNews S1E4 — TypeScript 4.0, Gitee, Chromium, and Apple Drama! 🤺
Tags: discuss, meta, news, podcast
Published: 2020-08-27 16:13:21

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title: DevNews S1E4 — TypeScript 4.0, Gitee, Chromium, and Apple Drama! 🤺
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description: New episode of the show about the latest topics in the world of tech — hosted by Saron Yitbarek, Josh Puetz, and myself!
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### Don’t miss the latest episode of the DevNews podcast! 👀



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### **In this episode, my co-host [Josh](https://dev.to/joshpuetz) and I chatted about several news stories in the world of software development**: 

- **More developments on the Apple vs Epic Games spat!** Epic garnered support from Microsoft, which publicly put out a statement in support of the gaming giant. Epic was also granted a temporary_restraining order_ against Apple. Apple has also gotten into a similar in-app purchase battle with WordPress.  😱
- An announcement from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that Gitee had won a bid to work on the “2020 Open Source Hosting Platform Project”. **What does this GitHub competitor mean for open source in China?** 
- The Google **Chromium team’s announcement** that they are planning to add native browser support for directly accessing TCP and UDP ports. What does this spell for security on Twitter? 

### **Josh and I also talked to two guests this week**
**[Nathan Shively-Sanders](https://twitter.com/sanders_n)** has been at Microsoft working on compilers for about 10 years — and five of them have been dedicated to TypeScript. One of Nathan’s areas of TypeScript expertise is the language’s JavaScript-editing support within VS Code and other editors. 

**[Orta Therox](https://twitter.com/orta)** has been at Microsoft for about a year and has worked on TypeScript for their entire tenure there. Orta came to the team with a focus on how TypeScript and the wider ecosystem interact — and played a major part in launching TypeScript’s new website. 

Nathan and Orta joined us to talk about the new version of TypeScript, version 4.0! Josh and I learned more about TypeScript and its purposes, what TypeScript offers devs over other open source programming languages, and much more!


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I hope you tune in to the DevNews podcast, where we cut through the impossibly noisy news cycle to surface developer stories that impact many of us in this space. 🗞️🗞️🗞️ 

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