Cloudflare and VoidZero Port TypeScript to Rust, Claiming 8x Speed and 70% Less Memory
Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Cloudflare and VoidZero are collaborating with Max Schwenk of Owner.com on tsrs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler incubated within the Oxc toolchain. Early benchmarks show up to 8x faster performance and roughly 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0. The project is not a fork; the TypeScript team retains full control of language design. A key advantage is WebAssembly support, enabling development environments to run in browsers and on Cloudflare Workers. An experimental npm release is available.
When you compile a Go program to Wasm, you have to compile Go’s garbage collector along with it. But Rust’s memory management model enables straightforward memory interactions between a WebAssembly guest and host.