alt Hacker NewsNode's built-in Typescript support is just for type stripping. That works for a massive amount of TypeScript syntax, but not all of it. It also doesn't bother actually checking the types, just removing them so it runs. You also lose things like tsconfig.
This looks to support both the built-in stripping as well as actual TypeScript.
Exactly this. TypeScript also ended up being many users' entrypoint to JSX, decorators, etc as it became a catchall transpiler surface so respecting tsconfig is vital here (Node understandably has a policy against this). Plus there are extensionless imports, the "phantom" .js imports (pointing to .ts files), etc. List goes on. Type stripping ends up working out of the box for virtually no real world projects sadly.
https://nubjs.com/docs/runtime/typescript