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TypeScript Go Nightly Improvements, Rslint Announced, and Big Bun Updates | News | Ep 32


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News of the week of August 18, 2025: one of the biggest nightly updates for TS Go, Rspack team announces a new linter, the new minor Bun release is pretty major, and Next.js 15.5 features typed routing . From the community: more learning web dev resources, an exhaustive switch utility for JSX, --strict on by default?, and whether you can really protect your code from clients. Plus, the two fools rant about feature flags.

Chapters

  • (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
  • (06:32) - News: TypeScript Go Got a Big Nightly Update
  • (10:01) - News: Rspack Introduces Rslint
  • (13:08) - News: Bun 1.2.21 Got Some Major Upgrades
  • (18:10) - News: Deno 2.4.4 Improves Structured Clone Performance
  • (19:21) - News: Next.js 15.5 Features Type-safe Routing
  • (20:55) - News: Preact 11 Beta is Even Faster with Better Hydration
  • (21:27) - News: Angular 20.2 Goes Zoneless
  • (23:25) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Learning Web Dev Series
  • (25:08) - Community Highlight: A Hopeful PR to Enable --strict By Default
  • (26:38) - Library Watch: valleys, Lightweight Runtime Data Validation
  • (28:05) - Community Highlight: Hangman Written in TypeScript Types
  • (28:59) - Community Highlight: Exhaustive Switch Expressions by Replo
  • (31:42) - Discussion: How to Protect Code and Assets in the Browser
  • (36:59) - Cool Game: Now THAT'S a Big Dragon!
  • (38:05) - Cool Read: Auto-tiling with the Dual Tile Map Technique
  • (38:33) - Cool Tip: Using IIFEs for Scratch Variables to Avoid Allocations
  • (40:43) - Cool Vid: A Million Blades of Grass Written in LOVR and TypeScript
  • (42:31) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

  • News
    • Jake Bailey: TSGO had a big nightly update
    • Socket.dev: Rspack Introduces Rslint, a TypeScript-First Linter Written in Go (powered by TS Go) (repo)
    • Bun 1.2.21 release notes plus blog post on how they achieved a 500x faster postMessage(string)
    • Deno 2.4.4 structured clone perf improvement 
    • Next.js 15.5 release notes (summary thread)
    • Preact 11 sneaks in a beta
    • Angular 20.2.0 features a stable zoneless API 

    From the Community

    • Dr. Axel: 
      • Learning web development: Booleans, comparisons and `if` statements
      • Learning web development: Loops in JavaScript
      • Learning web development: Shells and Node.js
    • Daniel Rosenwasser proposed to turn `--strict` on by default 
      • Correction: It was an issue, not a PR :-)
    • Lib watch: valleys (ht HN) –  Lightweight, zero-dependency library for validating arbitrary runtime data in TypeScript.
    • Hangman in TypeScript types
    • Discussion: Protect code & assets? : r/typescript
    • Replo.computer: Exhaustive Switch Expressions in Typescript

     

    Cool Stuff

    • Blog post: Dual Tilemap Auto Tiling 
    • Steam Game: Now THAT’S a Big Dragon
    • Video: A million blades of grass in LOVR + TypeScript
      • LÖVR - VR version of LOVE 2D
      • TypeScriptToLua
    • Join the Michigan TS Discord!

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