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Doom in Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines and a full year of work
2025-04-04 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Doom has been ported to just about everything, right? Well, until now, the id Software title had not been recreated inside of Typescript's Types system, until now.The feat was devised by Software Engineer Dimitri Mitropoulos, founder of Michigan Typescript and co-founder of SquiggleConf. He released a video showcasing the results of a year-long effort to get the game running inside of Typescript's Types system.Typescript is a language built on top of Javascript, that add static typing to catch many errant mistakes before your executes, think of it as guardrails which check that functions and other variables are being used correctly. While this is commonly used in all kinds of development, it's unheard of to run a game within Typescript's Type system.The port itself runs inside three and a half trillion lines of types, totalling a gargantuan size of 177 TB. This is run through Typescript's Type tracker, which takes 12 days to compile the first frame of Doom (0.0000009645 fps). This mean...
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