alt Hacker News(Not sure if this could be a genuine remark or is more of a joke, but)
Why not vibecode a Go -> WASM cross-compiler, then?
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ZiiS • today at 3:07 PM
You already can run the Go tsc in WASM using mature tools; but it further amplifies the memory and performance difference between the Rust version (which maps more cleanly onto WASM's design).
Tadpole9181 • today at 3:12 PM
1. Porting typescript is made easier by the enormous test suite they can copy for verification.
2. They're doing this for workers, so with a systems-level language, there's a much higher potential for CPU and memory savings (an order of magnitude on this first pass, apparently). Driving their compute costs down is very revenue-efficient at this scale.
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Go needs a garbage collector while rust doesn’t.