We use the second conditional in English when we want to talk about unreal ... to if not and can be used instead of if not in certain types of conditional sentences. We normally use unless with ...

Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release. The plan was for TypeScript 5.8 to ...

Note that we can also convey the same idea of past event and present result by using type 3 conditional (if + past perfect, would've + past participle) in both clauses If he'd taken the medication ...