Microsoft Releases TypeScript 7.0 RC, Promising 10x Faster Builds
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Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 2
Microsoft Releases TypeScript 7.0 RC, Promising 10x Faster Builds
2 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 2
Summary
TypeScript 7.0 release candidate is now available on npm, with Microsoft targeting a full release within the next month.
A Go-based port of the compiler makes the new version about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0 by using native code and shared-memory parallelism.
Parsing, type checking and emitting now run in parallel, which Microsoft said should scale especially well for larger codebases, though some build steps still resist parallelization.
Because a stable programmatic API will not arrive until TypeScript 7.1, Microsoft is prioritizing side-by-side use with 6.0 through the @typescript/typescript6 compatibility package and its tsc6 executable.