$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
Theo Browne, a popular YouTuber and developer, used AI agents to port Microsoft's TypeScript compiler to Rust in an experiment. Despite the project being impractical earlier this year, Browne's AI agents were able to create a functioning implementation, costing over $24,000 in API-equivalent tokens. The resulting code can run twice as fast as Microsoft's official Go-based TypeScript version and 12.5 times faster than the previous TypeScript version.
This new Rust-based TypeScript could enable more memory-efficient environments for AI agents, potentially running within Google's V8 engine instead of requiring full containers or VMs.
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