Schnelly, the racing snail: Infrastructure as Code on AWS up to 8 times faster with TypeScript 7 and other GO/Rust based tools
For your serverless AWS project you decide the Infrastructure as Code framework and the language for your serverless Lambda functions. In the last years in projects I often heard “we can only do X, because this is the development language we know”. Is this argument still valid with agentic coding? To be able to decide, you should be aware how much time in the steps of the development cycle you need. The new TypeScript 7 is 10 times faster than before. Does this make CDK significantly faster? Let’s build and see: