Comment by koolba
1 day ago
> In 2004 we solved the types for JS with ECMAScript 4 (or ActionScript 2.0).
> Unfortunately this was in the middle of browser wars, so no one cared about the standards and all of that work was lost like tears in rain.
> Around that time I attended MS conference where they introduced IntelliSense and it was a forming experience for myself. You could do actual programming basically with <space>, <dot>, arrow keys and <enter>.
I think you’re off by at least 6-7 years. Visual Studio had autocomplete since at least version 6. And yes it was magical the first time you experienced it.
And by 2004 the browser wars where long over. That was the period when Microsoft left the web languishing on IE6 after destroying all competitors and then promptly disbanding their browser team. Firefox only got its name in 2004 and was released at the end of that year.