News for the week of May 25, 2026: Astro's new Markdown processor API, Rust's take on LLM authorship, and new stage 4 TC39 proposals. From the community: highlights.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Astro: Astro 6.4 
• Svelte: What’s new in Svelte: June 2026 
• Socket: Rust Moves to Restrict LLM Use in Contributions After Months of Internal Debate 
• Porffor: porffor.dev is now served from a TS native binary 
• ECMAScript Corner
  • Stage 4: Explicit resource management
  • Stage 4: Atomics.pause 
  • Stage 4: Iterator methods
• Security: Malicious Postinstall Hook Found Across 700+ GitHub Repositories, Including Packagist and Node.js Projects 

Library Watch

• replacements.fyi helps you find safer npm package alternatives (via Inautilo) 
• Sandcastle sandboxes your coding agents (Matt Pocock)
• Rspack gets smarter about cross-module tree shaking 
• Thales is a TypeScript Compiler for the Lean proof language (via jessealama)

From the Community

• 2ality: Going offline for awhile (Buy Dr. Axel's books!)
• Jovi de Croock: Secure npm publishing
• Zack Overflow: Why does tsgo use so much memory? 
• Viget: Fixing TypeScript Performance Problems: A Case Study
• Rijk van Zanten: Rust-Inspired Typescript 
• Marbin Hagemeister: Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - oxlint and oxfmt 
• Mastro: Is AI causing a repeat of Frontend’s Lost Decade?
• Mastro: Four ways to do component-scoped CSS without a complex build step  
• Web Dev Simplified: How To Build A Production Ready API - Auth, JWT, API Keys
• Dax Raad: Effect at OpenCode | Dax Raad | Effect Miami 🇺🇸 2026 
• JP: Object.assign’s type annotation doesn’t match runtime behavior
• Bleet of the week

Cool Links

• Erik:  Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 
• Kamran: Mina the Hollower

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)