CppCon, online 2021

October 24-29, 2021

October 2021 was the second time think-cell was invited to present its talk at the biggest and most well-known conference within C++ community — CppCon. This time, our Senior Software Developer Sebastian talked about "Typescripten — Generating type-safe JavaScript bindings for emscripten".

There he presented our new tool typescripten https://github.com/think-cell/typescripten for the first time at a conference. typescripten solves an important issue that we used to have when building web applications in C++: So far, there was no type-safe way to call JavaScript APIs from C++. Now there is. typescripten is built on emscripten and TypeScript. emscripten provides powerful runtime support that lets us call JavaScript from C++ but without type safety. TypeScript lets us annotate JavaScript libraries with type information. Such interface descriptions are available for over 7000 JavaScript libraries at https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped. Typescripten uses these TypeScript interface definitions and transforms them into type-safe C++ interfaces that every developer can include in their WebAssembly application.

Despite it being an online talk, due to current COVID-19 restrictions, it was both an honor and great pleasure for Sebastian to meet the audience. Participants were very engaged and had a lot of questions about our typescripten compiler. As the discussion exceeded the allotted Q&A time, there was an extra meeting afterwards, gather.town, which we was a great success!

Who is think-cell?

think-cell was founded in 2002 by two computer scientists who continue to run the company. We produce graphics software that performs most of the painstaking work of creating presentation slides for our demanding users.

Find out more about our company and our working environment on our career page. If you are looking for more information on what development problems we are facing every day go to our C++ developer job posting.

Want to know more?

If you have any questions regarding working at think-cell, our job openings or events, please feel free to contact our colleague Julia Zhachuk.

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