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Re:Deno 1.0 by uryga on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:53PM (#23173312)
> I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't have their own native TypeScript runtime engine by now

what would they do with it? ship it in Edge? great, now some small fraction of users can run TS natively. but most can't, so everyone would still transpile to JS anyway...

it could work if Google did it, but i don't think MS has enough market share to have an influence here

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Re:Deno 1.0 by noahtallen on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:04AM (#23175930)
It would work for server-side tools (like Deno). For example, cloud functions on various cloud platforms often support TS.
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Re:Deno 1.0 by uryga on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:09AM (#23177653)
yeah but i don't think MS uses TS-on-the-server enough or has enough Azure TS users to justify putting in the effort
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