Chris Tate
fdf5010b28
- Stamp all publishable packages at v0.0.20. - Publish release notes for the contract-sidecar improvements. - Refresh the compiler surface manifest for the release.
scriptc
Compile ordinary TypeScript and JavaScript to small, fast native executables — no Node, no V8, no JavaScript engine in the binary. What compiles behaves byte-for-byte like Node.
$ cat fib.ts
function fib(n: number): number {
return n < 2 ? n : fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2);
}
console.log(fib(30));
$ scriptc run fib.ts
832040
$ scriptc build fib.ts -o fib && ./fib
832040
Install
$ npm install -g scriptc
Requires clang on the PATH (Xcode Command Line Tools on macOS, clang package on Linux).
Commands
scriptc build <file.ts>— compile to a native executablescriptc run <file.ts>— compile and runscriptc coverage <file.ts>— what compiles statically, and why the rest doesn't
No annotations, no dialect, no special stdlib: the same TypeScript you run on Node, type-checked by the real TypeScript compiler. Programs outside the static tier can opt into --dynamic, which embeds a small JavaScript engine (~620KB) for the parts that can't be static; everything else fails the build with a specific error code and usually a rewrite hint.
Native code can be called through an explicit, link-time C ABI manifest: declare the function signature in TypeScript, bind it to a C symbol, and build with --ffi <manifest.json>. See the Native FFI guide.
Docs: scriptc.dev