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Curious: does it run TS natively or does it just transpile for you? Because the former suggests exciting opportunity for better compiling or JITting if it can actually commit to holding on to the typing.


It does not do any type checking. You have to run tsc with noEmit separately. If you run `bun run foo.ts`, it just ignores all type annotations. It is transpiled to JS internally by removing the types (or it skips the types while parsing). While doing that, it keeps track of the original source locations. If you see some stack trace, you get the original location in the ts source.

Running tsc with noEmit is pretty much the standard in the frontend as well, as the TS is bundled by esbuild/rollup directly.


is there such a thing as running TS natively? Even tsc doesn't do that.




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