• @dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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      42 hours ago

      Typescript is always compiled down to JavaScript, so it’s kinda the same thing, but with “nicer” clothes.

        • @LeFantome@programming.dev
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          82 hours ago

          Rust does not compile down to C. It generates LLVM bytecode the same as Clang does. They both produce native executables. You do not need a C compiler on your system to run Rust binaries.

          Typescript produces JavaScript. You need a JavaScript interpreter to execute the output from TypeScript.

          Not the same thing.

          • @dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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            2 hours ago

            In before the pedants: clang is a c compiler, in that it compiles c code—but it also compiles other languages too. The distinction is that c, c++, rust, etc are compiled directly into byte code , whereas typescript is transpiled into another language (JavaScript) before it is executed. I’ll probably catch heat for this, but you can liken TypeScript to C++ because they both are supersets of another language.