Microsoft Releases TypeScript 7.0 in Go With 8x-12x Build Speedups
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Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 13
Microsoft Releases TypeScript 7.0 in Go With 8x-12x Build Speedups
3 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 13
Summary
TypeScript 7.0 is now available via npm as a native Go-based port that Microsoft says typically cuts full build times by 8x to 12x.
The new codebase aims to preserve compatibility with the original compiler while adding native-code performance, shared-memory multithreading and other optimizations.
Microsoft also published @typescript/typescript6, which provides a tsc6 executable and re-exports the TypeScript 6.0 API so developers can run 6.0 and 7.0 side by side.
The release caps more than a year of work on the port, and Microsoft said the team will now resume feature development, ergonomic changes and a new ecosystem API on a three-to-four-month release cadence.