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by steve_adams_86 40 days ago
I think they mean deno handles transpiling for you so there’s no visible machinery for this aspect of the program. It’s just convenient.
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I assumed they meant more than that because nodejs does the same since v22.18 and prior would do it with a flag. But they mentioned type stripping, which is really all transpiling of ts does for most code.