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> We're talking about two programs with exactly the same purpose - ingest TypeScript and output JavaScript. It's a pretty clear-cut comparison, IMHO.

There are an infinite number of ways to design two programs for that task, with different trade-offs. You can't draw conclusions about which language is faster based on two different implementations by different people.

> Go is great, I like it. Rust is great too. I recommend you to do what the esbuild author did - test it and choose for yourself, don't bother too much about others' opinion.

I'm actually writing Rust code the last two years. It's been a while since I've used Go. But I'd rather use Go if the problem allows for a garbage collector. It's just simpler than managing it manually in Rust with the borrow checker and its rules. This is my opinion, nobody else's.