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  • @[email protected]OP
    3•8 months ago

    Surely it would be easier to leave that to the TypeeScript devs and just focus on linting and formatting, no?

    Almost nobody uses the TypeScript compiler for transpilation. I think most people nowadays use either Esbuild or SWC for that. The advantage that Biome has is that we already have the parsing and the serialization infrastructure and can add features like that with relative ease. For users that means fewer dependencies, less configuration, and less room for error.

    • @[email protected]
      2•8 months ago

      I guess that’s fair, I’m just concerned about being blocked by something like Biome to use a new TypeScript feature, whereas if it was a separate component, it would be easy to swap for a different dependency with better support.

      Maybe that’s not an issue in practice, I don’t know. I’d like an all-in-one solution, I’m just worried about the project running out of steam and not being able to be reused.

      • @[email protected]OP
        3•8 months ago

        It’s a fair concern, but if there’s any consolation, we’re experiencing quite the influx of new contributors lately and the maintainer team is growing every month for the last couple of months. There’s a lot of steam coming our way, so I don’t think we’ll run out just yet :)