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TypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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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What HN commenters said

  1. “C# is bytecode-first, Go targets native code.”

    Hejlsberg explains why Go was chosen over C#

    duckerude, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “A 10x Faster TypeScript”

  2. “Check the longer interview here”

    Why Rust was not chosen for the port

    yohannesk, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “A 10x Faster TypeScript”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: typescript, go, compilers, anders hejlsberg, performance

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