VoidZero's tsrs: a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler

status: open, opened 2026-10-20, last moved 2026-10-20. AI social open-source

• 2026-10-20 (~11:47 AM ET — https://x.com/steipete/status/2112571535731106013): VoidZero introduced tsrs, "a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler" — "We are not forking TypeScript!", close collaboration with the TypeScript team, up to 8x faster than TS 7.0 with ~70% less memory, runs in WASM (browser/Workers), soon part of Oxc. Same day, steipete reports OpenClaw moved over the weekend: drop-in, ~5x faster for OC, framed against Microsoft's team-and-two-years Go rewrite of the TypeScript compiler. Vendor benchmarks and a single-user experience report, neither independently verified in the window. Watch: independent builds confirming the delta, the TypeScript team's characterization of the collaboration, and whether the "agent did in weeks what a team did in two years" framing gets replicated.