LLM-assisted Rust port of the TypeScript compiler released
What happened
On October 8, Hacker News featured ts-rust (also called tsc-rs), a project that uses large language models to port the TypeScript native Go compiler to Rust, covering the compiler, type checker and language server. It is at an early release stage. The author says that after spending over $400,000 worth of tokens on OpenAI models at API pricing, compatibility was still about 84%. Opus 5.5 then started from scratch and produced a working v0 in 10 hours, at an API-equivalent cost of about $24,047 over two weeks. The compatibility rate, time and cost are all figures the author disclosed.
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- Hacker News front pagePickts-rust ports the TypeScript compiler, type checker and language server to Rust
ts-rust, also called tsc-rs, is an early-stage Rust port of the native Go TypeScript compiler, built with help from large language models. The author says OpenAI models burned over $400,000 in API-priced tokens and still reached only about 84% compatibility, while Opus 5.5 produced a working v0 from scratch in 10 hours for roughly $24,047 in API spend over two weeks.
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