Microsoft has ported the TypeScript compiler to Go

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Their motivation was partly a 10x speedup. It’s a bit early to tell what this means for Hugo. ESBuild (what Hugo uses to build JS) has great support for TypeScript, but has no type checking (you currently have to run tsc outside of Hugo to do that). Still early, but I suspect this is good news for JS/TS in Hugo.

Also of course interesting to see Microsoft pick Go (a Google “product”) over their own C#.

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If Microsoft can or someone else can fork Typescript and create GoScript built on 100% golang
Go market will be exploding.
Go is very promising contender to https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ eat 10% marketshare from Javascript, Java, C# and Python and become the 2nd most popular language by 2030.