Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re excited to give some updates on where we are, and show you how “real” the new TypeScript toolset is today.
We also have news about our upcoming roadmap, and how we’re prioritizing work on TypeScript 7.0 to drive our port to completion.
Editor Support and Language Service
For a lot of developers, a project rewrite might feel entirely theoretical until it’s finally released. That’s not the case here.
TypeScript’s native previews are fast, stable, and easy to use today – including in your editor.
TypeScript’s language service (the thing that powers your editor’s TypeScript and JavaScript features) is also a core part of the native port effort, and is easy to try out. You can grab the latest version from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace which gets updated every day.
Our team is still porting features and fixing minor bugs, but most of what really makes the existing TypeScript editing experience is there and working well.
That includes:
Code Completions (including auto-imports!)
Go-to-Definition
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