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by gonzus 2310 days ago
Do you plan to self-host at some point, and get rid of the dependency on the (external) TS compiler?
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As I understand it, the goal is not for Rome to do type-checking, but just for it not to choke on TypeScript's syntax (i.e. what Babel does):

> Supporting those "compilers" is just supporting their syntax, which both fortunately already have very good compliance test suites because other tools like Babel already reimplement their syntax anyway.