Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships
The Microsoft-led TypeScript 7.0 features an order-of-magnitude speed boost, a victory not only for TypeScript itself but also for Go, the programming language used to completely rewrite the web staple's compiler.
Following a major rewrite effort that began with an experimental native Go implementation, this is the first stable release of the language to include its long-in-development Go-based compiler rewrite.
“TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds,” wrote Microsoft Principal Product Manager Daniel Rosenwasser.
For the user's code editor, the rewrite shortens the time it takes files to open, to search through the code, for auto-completion to awaken and do its job. You thought that the text editor was slowing you down, but in many cases, the imported TypeScript Language Server was the culprit. The speedup happens in development time, not...
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