Cloudflare is going all-out to ensure that AI coding agents can check their work without exhausting available computing resources, leading a new effort to bring Microsoft’s TypeScript compiler to Rust.
Taking to X, Cloudflare’s director of engineering Christoph Nakazawa confirmed that the company is taking ownership of tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that it claims is up to eight times faster, and uses 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0.
Microsoft’s own TypeScript compiler is reaping the benefits, too, with the teams sharing optimizations as they work to keep the two implementations in sync.
“We are not forking TypeScript — we are working with the TypeScript team and as a result 7.1 is already ~2.5x faster, too,” Nakazawa writes.
Cloudflare is taking ownership of tsrs, a port of TypeScript to Rust. It's 8x faster and uses 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0.
We are not forking TypeScript – we are working with the TypeScript team and as a result 7.1 is already ~2.5x faster, too.https://t.co/ycBvdUSDcs
That “port vs fork” message runs throughout the accompanying blog post, co-authored by Nakazawa and fellow Cloudflare engineers Boshen Chen and Dimitri Mitropoulos, who go to great lengths to explain that they very much see TypeScript as Microsoft’s to continue steering.
“To be clear, we are not forking TypeScript. We believe the TypeScript team should remain in full control of the language’s design and direction.”
“To be clear, we are not forking TypeScript,” they write. “We believe the TypeScript team should remain in full control of the language’s design and direction.
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