On: A 10x Faster TypeScript

[fastball]

Those are javascript runtimes, not TypeScript runtimes. The point stands.

If you don't know enough about TypeScript to understand that TypeScript is not a runtime, I'm not sure why you would care about TypeScript being faster (in either case).

[Izkata → fastball]

I thought the title was announcing someone created a Typescript runtime. It is misleading.

Preact was "a faster React", for example.

[zem → fastball]

if typescript code execution got that much faster it might be a reason for someone to look into the language even if they knew nothing about it.

[timeflex → zem]

There are plenty of other reasons to consider TypeScript, but again, what code execution are referring to? The V8 JavaScript engine?

[zem → timeflex]

that's not the point I was making - gp was wondering why someone who didn't even know typescript compiled to javascript and ran atop a javascript engine would care that it had gotten 10x faster.