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Nathanba | karma 574 | avg karma 1.91 · 2021-02-16 11:11:02

it's fast because it doesnt do the thing that everyone else does to be useful which is type checking

nitsky | karma 811 | avg karma 5.52 · 2021-02-16 11:13:10

This is dishonest. In esbuild's benchmarks, webpack, rollup, and parcel do not do typechecking either.

endergen | karma 960 | avg karma 2.31 · 2021-02-16 17:28:10+00:00

I like the idea of having type checking moved out of the watch path, or at least be in a second window watching, so building is faster. But you get your type checking errors too.

You also have the editor finding issues for you, which is where I want that caught.

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kylecordes | karma 1508 | avg karma 3.55 · 2021-02-16 14:24:59

Yes this seems like an excellent performance boost to development. Parallelize type checking and compilation. We all have these many-core machines now, and so many tools that single thread the world unnecessarily.

pierreyoda | karma 113 | avg karma 4.19 · 2021-02-16 15:19:53

You may want to check out this webpack plugin [1], though I'm not sure how much it could get you there.

[1] https://github.com/TypeStrong/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin...

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vijaybritto | karma 844 | avg karma 1.38 · 2021-02-16 11:30:29

Nope. This is wrong. It clearly mentions that its only a Javascript and CSS bundler and nothing much. It doesnt try to solve every problem in the JS world. None of the other bundlers do type checking by themselves. They are always through plugins.