It's right in their wiki, "non-goal" number 4 in their TS Design Goals which is also referenced again in some issues: [a non-goal] Provide an end-to-end build

It's right in their wiki, "non-goal" number 4 in their TS Design Goals which is also referenced again in some issues: [a non-goal] Provide an end-to-end build pipeline. Instead, make the system extensible so that external tools can use the compiler for more complex build workflows. https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Design-Goals#non-goals https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...