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Samuel

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look whose compile times just got 8.7x faster! 🏎️💨

Compile times between typescript 6 & 7
vscode, sentry, bluesky, playwright, tldraw are all listed, with bluesky going from 24.3s to 2.8s

TypeScript@typescriptlang.org· 8 Jul

📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript

Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to

devblogs.microsoft.com

Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg 8 Jul

oh shit bluesky being used for benchmarks? you've officially become a legacy system.

Barry Dorrans 8 Jul

Alternatively “our code is so novel typescript had to write a whole new version to get it to compile in a reasonable time” 😈