Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, August 27, 2026
Daniel Rosenwasser emphasizes the deep-seated empathy within the TypeScript team, stating that they build tools for themselves and their fellow developers. He recalls implementing a colorization feature for an older version of Visual Studio to improve the experience for users on that version.
“Early on, uh, on the typescript team, there was something really, it was this feature for colorization. We had several layers of colorization so that we could, we could colorize things as quickly as possible, and then sort of fill in the more complete colors after the fact, right?”
“I really, really did my best to actually implement a version of that colorization. just because I knew that our developers would be so much happier if they were on like one earlier version of visual studio, just to get like better syntax highlighting, right?”
“And we really try to get people to feel that empathy. It's not just about, you know, we're building this for other people. It's like we're building this for ourselves and for our friends who are also developers.”