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Re:Go is 17 times more sustainable than Python by vorpalhex on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:33PM (#34849612)
> Why is TypeScript so much worse than JavaScript? TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript and compiles to it

Typescript produces garbage JS output that creates all sorts of weird bugs, hiccups and strange quirks. It doesn't surprise me that TS generated JS would perform much worse than directly written JS.

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Re:Go is 17 times more sustainable than Python by steveklabnik on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:38PM (#34849652)
Even if you take a JavaScript file and run it through tsc, it adds stuff? That is indeed surprising to me!

It wouldn’t shock me that there were differences if you used a bunch of fancy TypeScript features, but at the limit I would expect no overhead if you don’t use any of them. Maybe that expectation is misguided.

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Re:Go is 17 times more sustainable than Python by rcme on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:31PM (#34850769)
It depends on your compiler settings but the code can very closely match equivalent JS if you want.
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