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by simplotek 1280 days ago
> (...) such as Typescript

It seems you're oblivious to the fact that projects such as swc[1] exist, and have been adopted by projects such as deno.

[1] https://swc.rs/

> Elixir etc

I'm not familiar with Elixir nor am I in a googling mood. Nevertheless that was an awfully short list. Why is that?

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swc only does transpilation, it does not support TypeScript's type-checking which is its main feature.
The author of swc is currently working on a Rust-port of the type checker: https://github.com/dudykr/stc

Here is an interview with them: https://www.totaltypescript.com/rewriting-typescript-in-rust