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		styfle on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespac... Thanks for doing this! I reported typescript install size issue back in 2018 and changing to modules seemed to have the biggest impact here! https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/23339 For anyone curious, TS 1.0 was 7MB and today it’s 65MB. https://packagephobia.com/result?p=typescript%401.0.1%2Ctype... Really excited to see this number move in the downward direction for a change :)

jakebailey on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

These days, it's tracked at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27891.

I have a gameplan to drop this by another 7 MB (by turning our executables into ESM), probably for 5.0 as well if we decide that Node versions older than 12 are worth dropping.

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