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by smaudet 828 days ago
"standard Typescript configs are absolutely compiling to JavaScript"

You are missing the point. I want zero cost abstractions (for some level of abstraction - I accept e.g. there is a CPU and a browser). I don't care what it is compiling to.

Typescript is not a zero cost abstraction. (Zero cost meaning, here, that any overhead is incurred compile time only).

"The things you seem to be worried about are configurable in the tsconfig"

That's terrible. I want the Z.C.A. to be by-default, not "configure the heck out of the language to make it so".

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> That's terrible. I want the Z.C.A. to be by-default, not "configure the heck out of the language to make it so".

Don't you just set target? Is there even a default for target?