Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

Microsoft expects its port of the TypeScript compller, tools, and code base from JavaScript to Go will be completed by the end of 2025. Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation based ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...

A much more performant TypeScript is now available in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders build, capitalizing on speed gains achieved by porting the language compiler to the native Go language. The ...

The rewrite of TypeScript in Go is not actually a rewrite, but a 1:1 port of the existing source code. In this way, the development team wants to ensure that the existing features are also available ...

Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the ...