• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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      Typescript is always compiled down to JavaScript, so it’s kinda the same thing, but with “nicer” clothes.

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          Rust does not compile down to C. It generates LLVM bytecode the same as Clang does. They both produce native executables. You do not need a C compiler on your system to run Rust binaries.

          Typescript produces JavaScript. You need a JavaScript interpreter to execute the output from TypeScript.

          Not the same thing.

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            In before the pedants: clang is a c compiler, in that it compiles c code—but it also compiles other languages too. The distinction is that c, c++, rust, etc are compiled directly into byte code , whereas typescript is transpiled into another language (JavaScript) before it is executed. I’ll probably catch heat for this, but you can liken TypeScript to C++ because they both are supersets of another language.

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                I’ll admit I’m no c/c++ aficionado, but after a little research I see what you mean. Originally, C++ was a superset of C, but C has since diverged to include things that are not in C++. So we are both correct.