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		autora on Nov 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TypeScript 3.7 >Not being glib, just a heaps up: https://github.com/denoland/deno interesting thanks for the heads up - my assumption is though that this is just a wrapper over a V8 engine with typescript compilation on the fly? Does that make it a TypeScript runtime or not?

eyelidlessness on Nov 7, 2019 [–]

V8 is a JavaScript runtime that compiles JavaScript on the fly, so it seems reasonable to say that a runtime that compiles TypeScript on the fly is a TypeScript runtime.

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