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by nicoburns 20 days ago
The benefit to Rust rewrite would be integration with the rest of the JS tooling ecosystem which is increasingly written in Rust rather than performance.

It probably won't ever happen though.

> It's easy to reimplement typescript in go 1:1 just by looking at the code.

That's also true of Rust if your codebase is written in a functional style. But apparently TSC had a lot of inheritance, which probably isn't a great fit for porting to Rust.
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Cthulhu_ 19 days ago
Can you elaborate why that's a factor? The tools are just binaries in how they're used, the language they're written in is no longer a factor then.

It's a good argument if you're talking about transferable skills though, I can imagine some contributors work on both TS and Biome, for example. This is why a lot of JS tools were initially written in JS, too.

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nicoburns 19 days ago
> The tools are just binaries in how they're used

They are today, but the potential would be to expose something like the TypeScript compiler as a library. That is possible today with a lot of the JS tooling.

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