Discussion on: Let's rewrite Typescript in Rust!

[Will Munn]

This is a very important point and it's the same for SWC. From what I've seen all it does is strip the types. You can quite happily "compile" what's actually invalid typescript:

const name: number = 'foo';

to

var name = 'foo';

So really this is not an alternative to tsc, you might as well write javascript. What would be really cool is if their was a true typescript compiler written in rust/c++/go. I've been searching for this, but I don't think it exists.

[Adrian Smijulj]

Do you know maybe, was there any movement in the meantime?

Was searching for the same thing, and could not find anything.