Microsoft is making TypeScript 10x faster with native implementation in Go

Big if True: Microsoft recently teased some truly impressive performance improvements coming to TypeScript. The lead architect of the open-source programming language wants TS to deliver an excellent developer experience, even with the most demanding and massive codebases. TypeScript should soon become 10x faster on average. Anders Hejlsberg's team at Microsoft is working on a radical improvement to its performance with a new native port of the language's compiler and tools. The Microsoft code designers will bring TypeScript to Go, porting the project's most current codebase while keeping the older versions for compatibility's sake. According to the latest TIOBE Index, TypeScript is currently the 37th most popular language in the world, while Go(lang) is seventh. Hejlsberg stated that the new implementation would drastically improve editor startup times, reduce most compilation times by a factor of 10, and substantially decrease memory usage. While Go is a properly compiled high-lev ... Read full article.