Europe, as the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk recently wrote, has ended a long “vacation from history.” We have crossed the threshold into a gloomier era that is once again characterized by power ...

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Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase.

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