Popular developer and YouTuber Theo Browne used autonomous AI agents to fully port Microsoft's TypeScript compiler to Rust.

TypeScript is a variant of JavaScript that provides strong type information, a powerful development tool that minimizes bugs and makes JavaScript programs easier to build in enterprise settings.

Developer Theo Browne used AI agents to rewrite Microsoft’s TypeScript compiler in Rust. The result is said to run twice as ...

A much more performant TypeScript is now available in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders build, capitalizing on speed gains achieved by porting the language compiler to the native Go language. The ...

Bun v1.4.3 Speeds Up TypeScript Development by 3x. Why Type Checking Wait Times Are Dramatically ReducedThe "wait time for type checking" is consistently cited as a challenge to development efficiency ...

Microsoft says work on the next two versions of TypeScript is going well, with both TypeScript 6 and 7 on course to appear in early 2026. TypeScript 7.0 is the version that is being rewritten in ...

If you asked 100 software developers to predict what the fastest-growing programming language on GitHub was in 2025, it's likely that some people would guess Python, given the language's popularity in ...

Microsoft has released the beta version for TypeScript 6.0, the last release with the current JavaScript codebase. From version 7.0 onwards, the compiler and the language service will be written in Go ...