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Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

Fascinating. I've written cross platform (WASM, iOS, Android) libraries with Rust before and had a good time but Rust can be a pain too. Cross-platform Typescript is a really interesting proposition.

Though I do worry they're trying to do too much here. Cross-platform TS and native UI libraries? I think the former is much more valuable than the latter. Also doesn't inspire confidence that the text on the site is very clearly AI generated.

31 minutes agoafavour

tbf Rust also can spit out pretty big binaries for small programs

28 minutes ago__s

Agreed. You can optimize things a fair amount with the Rust compiler, at least.

3 minutes agoafavour

Calling a couple million lines of ai written Rust "stable software" is a bold statement

30 minutes agokoteelok

Curious where on spectrum compiling to wasm falls between art project & optimization potential. Should be able to make some nice interfaces between TS-wasm & TS-web

30 minutes ago__s

the claim of "no runtime" is a bit dubious... you're telling me that you're statically linking a full, modern UI library into every app?

31 minutes agoevil_buzzard

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