The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally with modules

Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by styfle on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:47PM (#33446755)

Thanks for doing this!

I reported typescript install size issue back in 2018 and changing to modules seemed to have the biggest impact here!

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/23339

For anyone curious, TS 1.0 was 7MB and today it’s 65MB.

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=typescript%401.0.1%2Ctype...

Really excited to see this number move in the downward direction for a change :)

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Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by jakebailey on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:55PM (#33446794)

These days, it's tracked at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27891.

I have a gameplan to drop this by another 7 MB (by turning our executables into ESM), probably for 5.0 as well if we decide that Node versions older than 12 are worth dropping.

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