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Jan :rust: :ferris:

Kudos to the team for doing the port to a native language! Truly amazing! 🎉

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescr

Altogether, their choice of using makes perfect sense!

However, there are always trade-offs. One of the biggest trade-offs, IMHO, is:
Not being able to use a _common representation of the AST_ in all language tools - this is an explicit goal for the team behind void(0):

voidzero.dev/

Parse once, use anywhere!

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TypeScript · A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScriptEmbarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Does anyone know, if the TypeScript team has talked to the folks over at void(0) about this exact trade-off?

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