Does this project mean I can emit native code from my TypeScript code?

[RyanCavanaugh]

No. This repo is a change in the implementation language of TypeScript itself, and isn't a tool that would allow a TypeScript input file to be converted to Go or any other native/native-like target. Such a transform (if even possible?) is outside the scope of the project.

[tungm]

Since there are still a lot of concerns about this, I’d like to confirm that the existing TypeScript (TS) code will still be transpiled to JavaScript (JS) as usual — only the TS compiler and tooling are being ported to Golang. Is that correct?

[versecafe]

yes, if you're looking for TS to native look at porffor instead which does JS/TS -> C but note it's unreliable

[leaftail1880]

If you're looking for typescript -> native compiler, take a look at this: https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScriptCompiler

This is not something that transforms TS into the C code, it works almost like C++/C compiler

It lacks of many built-in library functions, but improvements so far seems very promising

[sshuvoo]

The "Corsa" project, Microsoft's native implementation of the TypeScript compiler, does not enable emitting native machine code directly from TypeScript code. Instead, it compiles TypeScript into JavaScript, similar to the existing TypeScript compiler. The primary goal of "Corsa" is to enhance the performance of the compilation process, making it faster and more efficient.

It will be beneficial to slow dev frameworks like Next.js

[guillaumebrunerie]

Someone should try to train an LLM on both the original TypeScript code and the Go port. Maybe that's enough data for it to figure out how to convert other TypeScript projects into Go?