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		forty on March 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Deno Company Exactly. And I guess the package still needs to be compiled to JS before deploying to production? To avoid shipping a full TS compiler on a production server which would be a crazy thing to do.

sneak on March 29, 2021 | [–]

I don't think that would be that crazy, especially if it's in the stdlib.

forty on March 29, 2021 | | [–]

It seems like a huge amount of code and potential vulns to bring in production for no good reasons.

reader_mode on March 30, 2021 | [–]

Why do you need a full TS compiler - you can just strip type annotations ala babel.

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