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TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by nasretdinov »

This sounds really great. As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package — I agree that the existing packages don't fully allow to do a reliable recursive directory watch and it would be great to have something where you don't rely on C dependencies just for this thing.

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by __natty__ »

nasretdinov wrote: post #2

This sounds really great. As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package — I agree that the existing packages don't fully allow to do a reliable recursive directory watch and it would be great to have something where you don't rely on C dependencies just for this thing.

> As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package

You plan to contribute to the TypeScript project?

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by nasretdinov »

__natty__ wrote: post #3
nasretdinov wrote: post #2

This sounds really great. As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package — I agree that the existing packages don't fully allow to do a reliable recursive directory watch and it would be great to have something where you don't rely on C dependencies just for this thing.

> As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package You plan to contribute to the TypeScript project?

No, in fact I do not use TS at all :).

However they did mention this in the article, and hopefully that also means they'll make the package accessible to others too:

> The watcher is a self-contained package that has allowed us to keep a clean separation of concerns between what we care to watch and why.

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by orra »

_august wrote: post #4

> TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0 amazing

I need to know whether the speedup holds for truly gigantic projects such as Doom in Typescript types.

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by chatmasta »

nasretdinov wrote: post #5
__natty__ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a Go developer I'm also really looking forward to their Go port of the filesystem watcher package You plan to contribute to the TypeScript project?

No, in fact I do not use TS at all :). However they did mention this in the article, and hopefully that also means they'll make the package accessible to others too: > The watcher is a self-contained package that has allowed us to keep a clean separation of concerns between what we care to watch and why.

Building @parcel/watcher was always a huge PITA. I also hope they release this package separately because it’d be nice to have an easy to install, on any OS, file watcher that doesn’t require C++ toolchain.

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by simonbw »

They've had a preview version of this available as ts-go for a while now, and I've been really happy using it on my projects. I just installed it and changed "tsc" to "tsgo" in a couple places and it just worked. I don't remember exact numbers, but I think an approximately 10x speed up is a reasonable estimate for my build times. They went from noticable-but-not-bad to imperceptibly-fast.

Re: TypeScript 7.0 RC

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Post by nhatcher »

I'm looking forward to this. But it does amaze me how Microsoft with all it's power takes years to complete the port to a different language and bun does it in 7 days. Crazy times
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