Yes, thank you for pointing that out. Forgot that there's a another thing named "tsx" out there.

I wouldn't call it running TS natively - what they're doing is either using an external tool, or just stripping types, so several things, like most notably enums, don't work by default.

I mean, that's more than enough for my use cases and I'm happy that the feature exists, but I don't think we'll ever see a native TypeScript engine. Would have been cool, though, considering JS engines define their own internal types anyway.

People have to look into Typescript as a JavaScript linter and a babel replacement, nothing else.

In fact, the team has back pedaled into trying to make its own thing like in the early days.

Yes. As pointed out by someone else I misunderstood and it's the other tsx they were talking about.

I've always used ts-node, so I forgot about tsx's existence, but still those are just tools used for convenience.

Nothing currently actually runs TypeScript natively and the blessed way was always to compile it to JS and run that.