Re:New TypeScript Website
by nikolay on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:57PM
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Not sure why Microsoft shies away from offering compilation to MSIL. Maybe they don't want C# competition, but having TypeScript not require Node.js/Deno would actually be a good thing. Away from the transpilation part, it is shaping to be a great programming language!
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It's a good question ( I have a YouTube video on some of the reasonings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qm49TyMUPI ) but the TLDR is that TS really wants to only be a type layer above JS - turning into something like MSIL means breaking JS runtime semantics or re-creating that in MSIL ourselves. The idea has been tried a little differently by MS research though, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/static-...