Microsoft chose Go instead of C# or Rust to rewrite TypeScript

felixfxu felixfxu at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 01:27:24 UTC 2025


On Monday, 8 September 2025 at 16:43:10 UTC, Neto wrote:
> this is the reasoning
>
> https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411
>
> I wonder if they did consider D language. First comment says 
> why Rust would be a good choice "If not C#, I would have 
> expected Rust, since that's where the rest of the ecosystem is. 
> So, another surprise there." it seems D is missing ecosystem to 
> be competive language?

Only yesterday I realized why it's related to dlang: dlang have 
garbage collector and compiles to native code, same as golang.

So I was wondering, why not promote dlang as a better golang with 
c++-like syntax and template?


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