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

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 29 September 2025 at 01:27:24 UTC, felixfxu wrote:
> 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?

"Like Go, but with the complexity of C++"