alt Hacker NewsThe typescript team themselves rewrote the compiler in Go to get better use of coding agents.
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franz899 • today at 5:42 PM
They did it for speed, and Go was the language with the closest syntax to migrate to.
The typescript team themselves rewrote the compiler in Go to get better use of coding agents.
They did it for speed, and Go was the language with the closest syntax to migrate to.
They started that migration years ago. I don't remember them citing agentic coding as a reason. Do you have a source?