Bigger TypeScript projects should now become much more manageable in all code editors
Eh, not entirely. Typescript will build faster and the text editor can parse it quicker but once it hits the browser no speed is gained. It’s kinda stated in the article but it dances around it quite well I wouldn’t blame you for missing it.
This just makes transpilation quicker along with some other benefits while working with it in editor. It’s still just JavaScript in the end this just gets it there quicker. Still very cool though.
I feel this should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about programming, because typescript is just a development tool not a runtime.
TypeScript is a language, and traditionally languages are considered separate from their implementations. When I first saw the headline I hoped maybe it meant a non-JS runtime for compiled TS, and I’m well aware of the difference. Yes, that would be a much larger undertaking than porting the compiler to a new language, but the headline doesn’t indicate how large a project this is, and Microsoft certainly has the resources to write a new backend (even a native-code one) for the TS compiler.
Extremely click bait title by the article author.
by microsoft. they used a similar headline for their YouTube video announcing it.
this probably won’t change anything for end-users, but transpiling 1.5M LOC from TS in 5.7s is pretty impressive.
I feel like I’ve seen this headline about 15 times already
