Go-based TypeScript 7.0 arrives

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0, a native port of the company’s strongly typed version of the JavaScript language based on the Go programming language . With this new codebase, TypeScript 7.0 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds, Microsoft said in a July 8 announcement . This port of TypeScript to native code was done as faithfully as possible, writing new code while maintai