TypeScript compiler
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 11, 2025first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the performance was a cost I was more than willing to pay for giving me sanity in JS land.”
“people are already going wild for its performance improvement”
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“Running tsc in a loop while generating code still catches type errors”
Caveats and dissent
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Also written as TypeScript compiler. Data: typescript-compiler.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I use the Typescript compiler to report errors to the shell, but that's it.”
“slow and runs Javascript”
“the performance was a cost I was more than willing to pay for giving me sanity in JS land.”
“people are already going wild for its performance improvement”
“Running tsc in a loop while generating code still catches type errors”
“I have been using tsc, vite, eslint, and prettier for years.”
“You can run `tsc` to do typechecking on a project typed with JSDoc”
“Maybe the `tsc` type-checker was already fast (so we only get some speed improvements in `tsgo`)”