TypeScript 7.0 Beta Released with 10x Faster Builds

TypeScript 7.0 Beta just dropped and this is NOT a regular version bump 🔥 The entire compiler has been rewritten from JavaScript → Go. The result? \~10x faster builds. That's not a typo. Here's what you need to know: → The compiler now runs parsing, type-checking, and emitting in parallel → New --checkers flag lets you control how many type-checker workers spin up \(default: 4\) → New --builders flag parallelizes project reference builds — huge for monorepos → strict is now true by default \(finally!\) → target: es5 and moduleResolution: node are gone for good → You install it via @typescript/native-preview@beta and use tsgo instead of tsc Think of it like this — your old TypeScript compiler was a single chef cooking a 10-course meal one dish at a time. TS7 is a kitchen with 4 chefs working simultaneously, each handling different courses 🍳 The best part? It's not a rewrite from scratch. They methodically ported the existing codebase to Go, so the type-checking logic is structurally identical to TS 6.0. Same rules, way faster engine. Companies like Bloomberg, Canva, Figma, Google, Vercel, and Notion have already been testing it on multi-million line codebases. Beta label, but production-ready confidence. VS Code extension is already out too. The stable release is expected within 2 months. If you haven't tried it yet — now's the time 🚀 What's the first thing you'd test TS7 on — your main codebase or a side project first? #TypeScript #TypeScript7 #WebDev #JavaScript #Programming #GoLang #DevTools

The backward compatibility with javascript is more restricted.

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