Oliver is a TC39 Invited Expert and the creator of Porffor – an experimental Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) JavaScript engine that can compile TypeScript to Wasm and native code. It has graduated from being a hobby project to now being a full-time activity.

In this talk, Oliver will show how native TypeScript support in JavaScript engines can present interesting optimization opportunities. Type annotations from TypeScript can act as hints to the AOT compiler to allow optimizations that reduce output size, improve performance, and more!