Today’s announcement by Microsoft: [...] we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10×, and substantially reduce memory usage. This blog post looks at some of the details behind the news.
  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    15 hours ago

    I was surprised that Microsoft bucked the trend of rewriting in Rust, but after reading this it makes much more sense as to why they picked Go instead.