News for the week of May 5, 2025: Node 24 officially brings TS support to the masses, Parcel adds RSC support, and a TC39 proposal gets replaced.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Introduction

• Event: IGDATC Game.wav
• Article: An introduction to Node.js 24 from Red Hat
• Video: Awesome on Node.js 24
• Repo: Records and Tuples Proposal replaced with tc39/proposal-composites
• Video: Arrays, objects... now ‘composites’? 
• Docs: Parcel 2.14 introduces React Server Components 
• Bluesky: Interesting thread on why Node 24 was delayed
• Article: Type-Safe Theming in Tailwind CSS Using CSS Variables and TypeScript
• Redditors share TypeScript Gotchas
• Article: Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup with Explicit Compile Hints
• Video: Jason Yu shares his way of doing try..catch in TS
• Video: Build System For C in C 
• Learn: Typecraft's Vim Challenges 

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Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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