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+TypeScript is authored by:
+
+* Ahmad Farid 
+* Anders Hejlsberg
+* Arnav Singh
+* Basarat Ali Syed 
+* Bill Ticehurst 
+* Bryan Forbes 
+* Caitlin Potter 
+* Chris Bubernak
+* Colin Snover
+* Cyrus Najmabadi
+* Dan Quirk 
+* Daniel Rosenwasser
+* Dick van den Brink 
+* Dirk Bäumer 
+* Frank Wallis 
+* Guillaume Salles 
+* Ivo Gabe de Wolff 
+* James Whitney 
+* Jason Freeman
+* Jason Ramsay 
+* Johannes Rieken 
+* Jonathan Bond- Caron
+* Kagami Sascha Rosylight
+* Keith Mashinter
+* Lorant Pinter 
+* Masahiro Wakame
+* Mohamed Hegazy 
+* Oleg Mihailik
+* Paul van Brenk 
+* Pedro Maltez 
+* Ron Buckton 
+* Ryan Cavanaugh 
+* Sheetal Nandi
+* Shengping Zhong
+* Stan Thomas
+* Steve Lucco
+* Tingan Ho
+* Tomas Grubliauskas
+* TruongSinh Tran-Nguyen
+* Vladimir Matveev
+* Yui Tanglertsampan
+* Zev Spitz 
+* Zhengbo Li
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