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TypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg
Michigan TypeScript
An interview with Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of TypeScript, about porting the TypeScript compiler to Go. He covers the 10x type-checking speedup, lower memory use, and why Go was chosen.
HN points to it as the authoritative answer to why the team picked Go rather than C# or Rust, citing timestamps on cyclic data structures and garbage collection.
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