The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 385: Nov 27th, 2024

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Short episode due to network problems
• Q: “why JS and not TS?”
• A:
  • We want the type-safety of TypeScript, without having to rewrite everything. Thankfully, TypeScript (quietly) added support for checking .js files with JSDoc in TypeScript 2.3
  • We already have the JSDoc effort underway - we’re working on it right now on this stream!
  • There are XPCOM / WebIDL pieces we need to figure out
  • There is pathing to figure out
  • But this was recently piloted, and logic bugs were found and fixed
  • https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/ad4ef3bc13/toolkit/components/extensions/types/README.md
  • https://blog.logrocket.com/typescript-vs-jsdoc-javascript/

• Back to chorin’!

• Rate this episode

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Other

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• How mconley uses Mercurial
• Fission - Read more about it
• mozconfigwrapper - A Wrapper to keep different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly Mikes Addon for showing how many reviews are in your review queue - Source at Github
• Mike’s Firefox Color Theme
• Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor
• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
  • First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.