Dark Arc

Nice! Thanks for sharing

But there is no such implementation AFAIK? How is it making Typescript faster if it’s a completely new implementation?

Well a new implementation running TypeScript could be 10x faster than the traditional e.g., NodeJS implementation or something; it’s not unusual for things to be compared in such a way.

But certainly, in theory it could become unshackled from JavaScript. Have there been any serious attempts to do so though?

No idea! :)

I… Don’t know about that. I mean, you could implement a browser or even a runtime library that used typescript (or a subset thereof) to directly write LLVM; it would take a lot of work, but typescript doesn’t have to just be for transpiling.