News for the week of April 20, 2026: highlights from the recent TypeScript 7 beta and Deno Fresh quality of life improvements. From the community: Bloomberg's type-safe CLI library, a new TSGO toolchain, and TypeScript database migrations.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Microsoft: Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
• Deno: Fresh 2.3: Zero JS by default, View Transitions, and Temporal support
• Firefox: Firefox 150.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes 

Library Watch

• TypeScriptToLua v1.36.0: TS 6.0 support
• samchon/ttsc: A `typescript-go` toolchain for compiler-powered transforms and type-safe execution. 
• Tesseron: In-app MCP layer that interfaces with agent tools (like WebMCP) 
• Stricli: Bloomberg’s type-safe CLI framework 

From the Community

• Microsoft: Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT 
• Prisma: TypeScript Migrations in Prisma Next 
• WebDevSimplified: Create a Complete Zod Clone In TypeScript
• Michael Black: TUI for Bluesky in TypeScript 
• Lars: Unbash v3 
• Ryosuke: WebGPU w/ TypeScript 
• Bleet of the week
• Secret of the Handbook: I Can’t Believe This TS Feature Has No Documentation

Cool Links

• Cool Watch: Coding Adventure: Making a Better Chess Bot 
• Cool Watch: Why we had to reinvent the conveyor belt 
• Cool Course: Whimsical Animations 
• Web Serial API: Read from and write to a serial port

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)