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Ron Buckton

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Ron Buckton

@rbuckton

Husband, Father, Developer, Gamer. I worked on @TypeScript at @Microsoft. Delegate to @TC39. All opinions are my own. he/him fosstodon.org/@rbuckton

Pennsylvania, USA

Joined May 2008

Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
May 13, 2025
After 18 years at Microsoft, with roughly a decade of that time working on TypeScript, I have unfortunately been let go in the latest round of layoffs. I need to take a few days to process before I start looking for work. Thanks to everyone who's been part of my journey so far.
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
May 17, 2025
LinkedIn locked my account for some reason and it's going to take several days to sort out. If you're trying to reach me there, you may want to try on here or on bluesky instead.
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
May 12, 2023
I made a thing
TypeScript
@typescript
May 12, 2023
Today the TypeScript team is releasing a new VS Code extension named Deopt Explorer! This tool can help find polymorphism and deoptimizations in your code, and it's already helped us speed up TypeScript itself. Check out what we've built! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/int…
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Oct 17, 2021
Replying to @AdamRackis
Or:
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Aug 18, 2025
After taking some time off and spending the summer with my kids before they go back to college, I'm happy to announce that I'll be starting a new role at @F5 next week! Thanks to everyone that reached out over the past few months. I'm very much looking forward to what's next!
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Oct 8, 2024
Regular Expression Modifiers for ECMAScript is now at Stage 4! Shipping unflagged in: - Chrome 125 - Edge 125 - Firefox 132 (nightly)
github.com
GitHub - tc39/proposal-regexp-modifiers: Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers for ECMAScript
Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers for ECMAScript - tc39/proposal-regexp-modifiers
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
May 28, 2025
I'm happy to announce that Explicit Resource Management has (conditionally) advanced to Stage 4 at TC39 today. Advancement is pending final PR approvals on the spec text and a few outstanding Test262 tests.
GitHub - tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management: ECMAScript Explicit Resource Management
From github.com
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Aug 24, 2023
Replying to @mattpocockuk
I and a few other TC39 delegates have been thinking for awhile on what a native implementation of enums might look like, as well as possibly expanding enums to include ADT enums, similar to Rust. I'm curious what thoughts you might have on that.
GitHub - tc39/proposal-enum: Proposal for ECMAScript enums
From github.com
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
May 15, 2022
Today marks 15 years at Microsoft. In that time I've worked on a bunch of great projects including product feedback tools, MSDN, VS Online, the IE F12 Dev Tools, and TypeScript, and I've worked with some amazing people along the way!
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Sep 2, 2022
Replying to @code
Where was this tweet an hour ago? It would have been perfect with these:
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Sep 2, 2022
I can get behind these ideas.
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Aug 31, 2021
Class `static` initialization blocks achieved Stage 4 consensus today at #TC39! 🚀🚀🚀 Provides access to private state and multi-step field initialization inside of a `class` declaration. Thanks to all the reviewers and everyone else involved!
GitHub - tc39/proposal-class-static-block: ECMAScript class static initialization blocks
From github.com
Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Apr 15, 2025
'enum' is now a Stage 1 ECMAScript proposal: github.com/rbuckon/propos…
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Jul 3, 2023
Replying to @mattpocockuk and @AndaristRake
We introduced the `intrinsic` keyword used by type aliases like `Uppercase<T>` long after `keyof`, though I think having type operators like `keyof` is necessary to have the building blocks needed to create more advanced type aliases.
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Ron Buckton
@rbuckton
Sep 2, 2022
I can get behind these ideas.