> compiling/transpiling/whatevering webpack with webpack for webpack development would make no sense as far as I can tell
Isn't that the workflow when working with/on TypeScript? (substitute webpack with TypeScript)
Isn't that the workflow when working with/on TypeScript? (substitute webpack with TypeScript)
Tooling may also use a transpiled language but again, I, as a developer who's very experienced with JS, don't see a big win there.
Someone mentioned Flow + OCaml as a bad example and how it doesn't work out for them, but that's more than tooling. At that point you are not using tools written in other languages to build JS, you are just using other languages.
However, TypeScript is now suffering from long compile-times because it targets JS. If it was implemented in a language with more control over threading etc. I think it could be faster.
Also, if I could use TS on the backend without node (say, with the lib/runtime of another language), that would be amazing.
`tsc` is pretty great to be honest but it feels like the exception.