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I know providing a fully baked compiler API isn’t high on their list (think babel). I couldn’t find any information from the Typescript team regarding anything you’ve stated about 3rd party build systems and the compiler being provided only for convenience.

Do you have anything you can point to from the team about this?

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It's right in their wiki, "non-goal" number 4 in their TS Design Goals which is also referenced again in some issues:

[a non-goal] Provide an end-to-end build pipeline. Instead, make the system extensible so that external tools can use the compiler for more complex build workflows.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...

I think I interpreted this differently than the parent poster

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