TypeScript 7 Is Here — The 10x Native Compiler, and Whether You Should Switch Now
“Kicking off tsc and going for coffee” — every frontend developer has made that joke at least once. That joke may have just lost its punchline. On July 8th, 2026, Microsoft shipped TypeScript 7.0: the compiler and language service, ported whole to Go and running as a native binary. If you tried the preview under the name tsgo (@typescript/native-preview), this is its stable form — a preview that was already pulling 8.5M+ weekly downloads. Official numbers put full type checks on large projects at 8–12x faster. ...