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0 pointsa-french-anon4mo ago0 comments

Well, TS transpiles to JS which then runs on Node, aka V8, a native JIT compiler. So yes, I guess?

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pjmlp4mo ago

Kind of, given that V8 performance is never going to be as good as AOT compiled language, and JIT needs warmup time.

It is no accident that famous JavaScript tools keep being rewritten into C++, Dart, Go and Rust.

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0 pointsa-french-anon4mo ago0 comments

Well, TS transpiles to JS which then runs on Node, aka V8, a native JIT compiler. So yes, I guess?

pjmlp4mo ago

Kind of, given that V8 performance is never going to be as good as AOT compiled language, and JIT needs warmup time.

It is no accident that famous JavaScript tools keep being rewritten into C++, Dart, Go and Rust.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse