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I hope the work they did with the Babel team with help with this.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/types...

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I'm really eager to see availability of some extra features via this new pathway.

But I am less excited about projects containing TypeScript plus the large number of transitive dependencies from a typical Babel set up; I've been greatly enjoying TypeScript instead of that.

I am looking forward to see some production ready versions of RY latest project Deno "A secure TypeScript runtime on V8"

https://github.com/denoland/deno

Written in Go rather than C++ no less.

Edit: wait it looks like they’ve changed to all Rust with C++ for the libraries. I haven’t looked at the codebase since the spring. Am I crazy that i could have sworn it was written in Go previously?

https://github.com/denoland/deno/commit/86354a29a40fb97e334f...

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276

Thanks guys. I'm out of the loop.

It was in Go, but in Ryan’s announcement, he said he was considering switching, and has since done so.

Cheers, Steve. I missed that.

100% agreed. It was incredibly liberating to move from Babel with its byzantine level of configuration and plugins to "just run tsc". So much easier to reckon with - Typescript is Typescript is Typescript.

For my part, my web projects have generally ended up with both Typescript and Babel because of old-browser-support reasons, so integrated parsing simplifies things for me.

Until this showstopper is fixed (it's been almost 9 months now), some of us can't move forward with Babel 7: https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/7074

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