Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go

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• It's written in Go because they didn't realize it was a dead-end choice. They optimized their own perf reviews instead of the actual long-term health of the ecosystem...
  by conartist6
• Misleading article. Probably partially AI written? Presents nonsense such as eg. the diamond inheritance example as valid-seeming argumentation.

  Quite a few points are plain wrong and outdated and under-researched, eg. Python has uv, ruff and Pyrefly, and with that combination, has roughly the same agent ergonomics as Go and lower token count due to higher abstraction level.

  by jaen
• The entire article is speculation. The real answer was posted by Ryan Cavanaugh in the official repo over a year a go: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411 Why would trust anything else?
  by hdjrudni