I’m excited to announce that on July 9th Qualia will be hosting our third Bay Area Meteor Night! See the Meetup.com event for more details.
As always, we will provide food, drinks, and time to mingle. We’ve got two awesome speakers for this event:
Ben Newman (Meteor, Tech Lead) — Reimplementing Meteor in TypeScript, Module by Module Justin Anastos (Apollo, Core Developer) — Inside the Apollo Engine Meteor Application
As a bonus, the meetup overlaps with the annual Meteor/Apollo HQ all-hands, so I expect/hope there will be good turnout from MDG itself!
The event will be live streamed and later uploaded to Youtube.
I would say that the title of Benjamin’s talk is evidence of very strong commitment on the part of MDG to Meteor. It appears that MDG is updating Meteor to Typescript. They would never do that if they were trying to let Meteor go. Additionally, given that Meteor already works extremely well, there is no need for them to do this at all unless they were planning to get some future benefit out of moving it to Typescript. It appears likely that they are doing this to set up Meteor to have new, exciting features in future releases.
Meteor backwards compatibility is incredible so I think we (app builder/programmer) will just have more benefits when MDG updates Meteor to TypeScript even if we don’t know much about TypeScript.
Great that Qualia is hosting this again and really excited by Ben’s talk. We’ve been looking at Typescript a lot lately and it would be awesome if Meteor had first class support
Same here, really excited about this as well and many thanks to Qualia team for hosting this once again! Qualia seems like an awesome company. And yeah, any talk from Ben is always interesting and educational, can’t wait!
I am very excited to hear this! Time to use Meteor has given me a lot of knowledge about its architecture. In my current company, I’ve created a tool based on Meteor-like architecture (different from how it works) and of course it’s written in Typescript. It will be fun if I can contribute to everyone in the future.
Probably not, but we are going to start doing monthly “hangout” type Meteor Nights (people come and work on Meteor stuff together, ask questions, Qualia in particular does what it can to help), and we will always give out the shirts there! Sort of a Meteor Night Lite.
So if you can eventually make it to an event, you will get one!
but looking forward to watching it on YouTube.