Scott's areas of interest
Scott Hanselman: TypeScript is demonstrably important and it happens to be from Microsoft. It was a risk to talk about TypeScript before it was deemed important, but, clearly, it is. The trick is to use your gut.
Another example is WebAssembly. We have a thing called Blazor that lets you compile ASP.NET pages to WebAssembly. Part of it is from Microsoft. I think it's cool and it will change things. Blazor might not become the next Ruby on Rails, but it is important.
WebAssembly is the foundation. Saying, "Here's a library and it's built on JavaScript," is different from saying, "Here's an entirely new language you've never heard of." JavaScript gets you the interview; it's your way in. Another example is getting C# to run on the Java virtual machine (JVM). You can use one thing like a bridge to the other thing.
Remember all that time that we spent trying to get virtual machines running in browsers? Little squares...