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If only we are so lucky. Still waiting for a faster typescript compiler.

Bun, Oxc and Biome are all great but a typescript rust compiler is something I'm really looking forward to. Right now my web application I've been building just crossed 25k lines of TS code and running `tsc` is becoming a pain point. What used to take 2-3 seconds now takes upwards to 10s, even with incremental compilation enabled in some cases.

STC by the SWC author should be coming along, I hear. It still will take a while though.

Semantic nit: STC is a type checker, SWC already compiles TypeScript well. TSC does both (unless flagged to do one or the other) so it depends on what needs replacing.

Why it matters: in GP’s case it sounds like compiling is the problem, so migrating to using SWC as the compiler but keeping TSC as the checker (noEmit flag) in a lint step may ease that pain a bit. Though it might be nicer to migrate both in parallel.

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