This is an experimental reimplementation of the TypeScript 7.0.2 compiler written in idiomatic TypeScript and packaged to run as a native executable via scriptc. It provides a drop-in tsc-compatible command and API (packages/tsc-ts), reference tsgo builds used for comparison (packages/tsgo), and a documentation site in apps/web. Installation is via npm (tsc-ts), with per-platform native binaries published as optional dependencies; developers can build and pack native or Node builds using the included npm scripts. Required tools for building include Node.js 24+, Go 1.26, and a scriptc host with clang. Build and test scripts are provided to fetch the upstream tsgo snapshot, produce native artifacts, run comparisons, and run a local documentation site.
The implementation is validated against TypeScript-Go’s test corpus (roughly 12,500 files, ~17,000 units) and claims exact parity across critical subsystems: scanner, parser/AST, binder, module resolution, tsconfig handling, CLI/options, diagnostics, JS and declaration emit, incremental/build behavior, and the type checker. An API server exposes the same stdin/stdout tsc API so tools like scriptc can drive it; many language-service methods (completions, JSDoc, references, signatures) are supported, while profiling methods are not. Test, bench, lint, and format commands are included, and the project is released under Apache-2.0.
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