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TS compiles to JS, JS runs on a runtime (V8, Deno, Bun) Systems languages need to be able to run on systems that literally cannot afford any overhead of an add
by valbaca 4y ago
TS compiles to JS, JS runs on a runtime (V8, Deno, Bun)
Systems languages need to be able to run on systems that literally cannot afford any overhead of an additional runtime. They need to run on systems that do not even have an operating system or more than a few kb of RAM.
> It's quite clear that TypeScript is going to be around forever.
Wow. "Forever" is quite the claim.
> add a few constraints to make it low-level.
This is...inaccurate.
- grumblingdev 4y agoTS would compile to assembly. AssemblyScript already compiles to web assembly as an example.