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No, the Go threading runtime is fundamentally incompatible with JavaScript's event-loop model. TypeScript does not define runtime semantics, JavaScript does, and it's built to run in a single-threaded environment. You cannot use it to leverage Go's coroutines unfortunately.

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I don't need Javascript runtime semantics. I just want to use Typescript.

You can get the semantics of coroutines and no parallelism by setting GOMAXPROCS=1, either via environment variable or set in the program initialization.

It would remove the benefit of running on Go. It would be less efficient than v8 + libuv because your TypeScript on Golang runtime wouldn't be as fast as v8 + JIT to run the application code which is now written in a language built for dynamic dispatch.

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