15-10-2026 20:52 via theregister.com

$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust

With some extra tokens to burn, developer and popular YouTuber Theo Browne used AI agents to port Microsoft's TypeScript compiler to Rust, just to see if it could be done. Not only did he produce a working implementation, but the resulting code could also pave the way for more memory-efficient environments for AI agents. Browne claims his Rust port runs twice as fast as Microsoft's official Go-based TypeScript rewrite (v7) released earlier this year and 12.5 times as fast as the previous version
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