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I'm pretty sure they already considered it before settling on Go. Allegedly, they chose Go because it was easier to translate to.

That was pre-AI. Ironically if they waited just another year they could've done this port directly to Rust themselves.

Not really because this port is based on the Go version. I doubt it would be as easy for an LLM to port the TS 6 codebase.

The Go version was a line by line port of the TypeScript version.

after 7.0, tsgo version is The canonical version. so, there is no other choice here