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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by notnullorvoid on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:23PM (#46247004)
TS decision to choose Go was primarily, because they could take the existing code and do a near 1-1 translation. You can frame that as an architectural concern, but it's really only one that applies when your attempting to migrate an existing program to a new language. The Go rewrite has some negative outcomes as well, most concerning is the performance of the WASM builds is worse than the old JS/TS version.

A TS compiler from scratch built in Rust would be fine.

> cultists

The cult is in your imagination.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by hu3 on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:54PM (#46248069)
Not your parent commenter but:

> You can frame that as an architectural concern...

"Go also offers excellent control of memory layout and allocation (both on an object and field level) without requiring that the entire codebase continually concern itself with memory management."

"The TypeScript compiler's move to Go was influenced by specific technical requirements, such as the need for structural compatibility with the existing JavaScript-based codebase, ease of memory management, and the ability to handle complex graph processing efficiently. "

If memory management and ability to handle complex graph processing efficiently isn't related to architecture to you I don't know what to tell you.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411

> The cult is in your imagination.

CTRL+F "rust" on the Go issue and see how many results you get. 31 for me and that's before expanding spam.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by notnullorvoid on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:46PM (#46249974)
> If memory management and ability to handle complex graph processing efficiently isn't related to architecture to you I don't know what to tell you.

Rust can do complex graph processing, as well as efficient easy memory management, but it's going to do it in a different structure than a GCed lang would. Hence my statement that 1 to 1 translation was the primary factor.

> CTRL+F "rust" on the Go issue and see how many results you get.

Yes and so what? There's 35 for .NET or 74 for C#, yet you don't see people claiming the C# cult was harassing the TS team.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by hu3 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:26AM (#46253550)
Obviously, C# is one of Microsoft's flagship language along with TypeScript.

So it's expected to be frequently mentioned there.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by notnullorvoid on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:21AM (#46255139)
Sure, and Rust is the most used language for modern TS/JS tooling, outside of TS/JS. There would have been substantial ecosystem benefits had Rust been chosen.
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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by hu3 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @01:53AM (#46261272)
Do you have a source for that?

Because esbuild is Go. tac was TypeScript and will be Go. Bun is Zig.

Come to think of it. I don't use a single Rust tool for the web. node is c++. deno breaks too much.

So, do you have a source for your claim?

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by notnullorvoid on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:48AM (#46263401)
Transpilers: SWC, Oxc Linters/Formatters: DPrint, deno lint, Biome, Oxlint, Oxfmt Bundlers: Rolldown (replacing esbuild in Vite), Rspack, Turbopack, and certain components of Parcel

All built with Rust

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