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CRITICAL: TypeScript `ES3` Target in Playground Broken
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Description
Page URL:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play
Issue:
When setting the compilation target to ES3 in the TypeScript Playground, the output panel fails to emit or downlevel code correctly.
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Research direction
Start at the TypeScript Playground URL and reproduce the failure by selecting the ES3 compilation target. Inspect the Playground's target-selection and output-panel behavior, then verify that ES3 code is emitted and downlevelled correctly without breaking other targets.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100