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. But whatever you do, don’t call it a fork. 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...

Source: The New Stack