Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go(spf13.com)
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Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go
https://spf13.com/p/go-the-agentic-language/
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The entire article is speculation. The real answer was posted by Ryan Cavanaugh in the official repo over a year a go: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411 Why would trust anything else?
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It's written in Go because they didn't realize it was a dead-end choice. They optimized their own perf reviews instead of the actual long-term health of the ecosystem...
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Quite a few points are plain wrong and outdated and under-researched, eg. Python has uv, ruff and Pyrefly, and with that combination, has roughly the same agent ergonomics as Go and lower token count due to higher abstraction level.