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> There is no need to be rude.

I apologise. I'm just… rather surprised at such an idea.

> It is not hard to imagine a language with the same objective of TypeScript that is compiled to WebAssembly.

It is not hard to an imagine a strongly-typed language targeting WebAssembly, sure. But TypeScript is not that kind of language. TypeScript is just JavaScript, and JavaScript, as a highly dynamic language, is a very poor candidate for the kind of ahead-of-time compilation to a low-level target that WebAssembly was made for. I mean… it could, technically, be done, but why would anyone do so? The result would be bigger and slower than normal JS.




Let's agree that is feasible, but unlikely.




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