A 10x faster TypeScript
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters cite it as the authoritative source for why the port is faster and why Go was chosen.
What it is
Anders Hejlsberg introduces the native port of the TypeScript compiler, written in Go, which promises roughly 10x faster tooling. He demos compiling VS Code and explains where the speedup comes from.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2025 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends odyssey7 · 2025-03 · on “A 10x Faster TypeScript”
The key: > immutable data structures --> "we are fully concurrent, because these are what I often call embarrassingly parallelizable problems" The relationship of their performance gains to functional programming ideas is explained beginning at 8:14 [this video]
Recommends yomismoaqui · 2025-08 · on “Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore”
After hearing the explanation about why he picked Go for the Typescript compiler I can only be more of a fan of Anders Hejlsber. He said that Go was chosen due to its suitability for the workload, offering low-level control, optimized native code, automatic memory management, and concurrency. And this coming from the same guy that created C#, Typescript, Delphi & Turbo Pascal shows how a real engineer takes a decision of this magnitude. Is Go the best decision for every SW project? No, but in this case the arguments (and the tests they did during their evaluation) check out. And no, picking F# simply because you love the language is not a mature decision. You can check his arguments here: [V
Cites dcre · 2025-03 · on “A 10x Faster TypeScript”
In the embedded video they show some of the code side by side and it is just a ton of if statements. [this video]
Cites dataviz1000 · 2025-03 · on “A 10x Faster TypeScript”
Not sure if it does but the video linked in the post might answer your question? I think he is compiling vscode which includes Monaco editor which is where they are getting 10x faster stat. (I might be wrong here.) [0] [0] [this video]
Cites kristianp · 2025-05 · on “Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust”
Here's the FAQs, where they explain the decision to go with Go and not, say, rust. [LINK] Hejlsberg also says in this video, about 3.3x performance is from going native and the other 2-3x is by using multithreading. [this video]