https://github.com/leona/ts2go

Experimental TypeScript to Go transpiler
https://github.com/leona/ts2go

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Experimental TypeScript to Go transpiler

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/leona/ts2go
• Owner: leona
• Created: 2024-02-05T10:24:22.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-12T14:18:29.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-12T16:26:01.570Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://ts2go.pages.dev/
• Size: 2.44 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# ts2go

Experimental TypeScript to Go transpiler. Supports an extremely limited subset of TypeScript features.

Playground

https://ts2go.pages.dev/

![](https://github.com/leona/ts2go/blob/master/assets/playground.png?raw=true)

Debugger (`docker-compose up`)

![](https://github.com/leona/ts2go/blob/master/assets/debugger.png?raw=true)

## Why?

This is just a crazy experiment to learn more about ASTs. Should you use this? Probably not. But I've found it a fun experiment.

My goal for this was not to reach Go performance with Typescript, or to have 1-1 support, but just to be able to write simple applications (CLI tools etc.) in TypeScript and output a small, portable and low footprint binary.

### Not yet supported

- disable any keyword and force strict typing

- enums

- classes

- impoved type inference

- support callbacks

- async await

- complete fetch, console, Date & process support

- float

- try/catch

- spread operators

- anonymous/named functions

- type params

- support constructors like new Date() but also static references like Date.now()

- support not capitalising variable names within a scoped function

- debug wrapper to print TS lines or comments

- error handling for unsupported features

- imports

- declaring multiple variables at once e.g. const test, test2 = "test"

- computed properties such as length

- pass by reference everywhere

- optimiser and debugger, crawl through and check for pushing string to int array etc.

- run tests in typescript & Go then compare

- seperate GoNode into multiple types

- casting

- utilise the reference IDs you can generate with asty

- optionals

Features this may never support

- enums

- interface properties

- inheritence

- same variable names different capitalisation

- partial imports, only import all

- mutating int to float

- var scoping