I… Don’t know about that. I mean, you could implement a browser or even a runtime library that used typescript (or a subset thereof) to directly write LLVM; it would take a lot of work, but typescript doesn’t have to just be for transpiling.
But there is no such implementation AFAIK? How is it making Typescript faster if it’s a completely new implementation?
Well a new implementation running TypeScript could be 10x faster than the traditional e.g., NodeJS implementation or something; it’s not unusual for things to be compared in such a way.
But certainly, in theory it could become unshackled from JavaScript. Have there been any serious attempts to do so though?
I… Don’t know about that. I mean, you could implement a browser or even a runtime library that used typescript (or a subset thereof) to directly write LLVM; it would take a lot of work, but typescript doesn’t have to just be for transpiling.
But there is no such implementation AFAIK? How is it making Typescript faster if it’s a completely new implementation?
But certainly, in theory it could become unshackled from JavaScript. Have there been any serious attempts to do so though?
Well a new implementation running TypeScript could be 10x faster than the traditional e.g., NodeJS implementation or something; it’s not unusual for things to be compared in such a way.
No idea! :)
There is a serious attempt for that actually: https://www.assemblyscript.org/
It doesn’t offer full compatibility with the regular TypeScript though, despite being very similar.