Re:Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
by Waterluvian on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:39AM
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Well, Typescript is literally checked in to the repo under node_modules. So I imagine the author just means "forget lockfiles, let's check this all in."
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Re:Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
by sebastianmck on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:42AM
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The TypeScript type checker is only used to type check the Rome source code. The compiler is not used at all.
Re:Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
by gonzus on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:05AM
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Do you plan to self-host at some point, and get rid of the dependency on the (external) TS compiler?
Re:Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
by Vinnl on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:54AM
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As I understand it, the goal is not for Rome to do type-checking, but just for it not to choke on TypeScript's syntax (i.e. what Babel does):
> Supporting those "compilers" is just supporting their syntax, which both fortunately already have very good compliance test suites because other tools like Babel already reimplement their syntax anyway.