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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Sayem Ahmed

Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work

Doom key artwork with the lettering "Typescript Types". .

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 Dmitri 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.

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