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pingdotgg/ts-rust

An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc)

ts-rust is an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc), checker, and language server, originally written in Go. It was generated almost entirely by LLMs and aims to be a drop-in replacement via an npm package (tsc-rs), with the same CLI and API, reportedly passing all ported Go tests in tested projects.

Why now: It's trending on Hacker News as a headline-grabbing experiment: LLMs ported a huge industrial compiler (1.3M+ lines of Rust) for ~$24k, with a dramatic narrative that Claude's Opus 5.5 outperformed far more expensive OpenAI models by rewriting it from scratch in a tenth of the time.

Who it is for: TypeScript developers wanting a fast type checker, plus anyone curious about the limits of AI-generated code at industrial scale.

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