TS-a-Go-Go | Ep 9

TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers

The Internet blows up as TypeScript reaches its next Pokemon evolution, and Kamran and Erik scramble to create an episode to pick up the pieces and make sense of it. In other news, TikTok announces Lynx, Angular gets some fetch upgrades, and Josh Goldberg releases v2 of create-typescript-app.

Week of March 3, 2025

• (07:09) - Big News: TypeScript Is Getting 10X Faster
• (07:48) - Big-ish News: Lynx Announced, the React Native Killer?
• (11:46) - News: Angular 19.2 Released
• (12:53) - News: Corepack Voted to Be Taken Out of Nodejs Core
• (13:35) - News: traits-ts Library Released
• (14:23) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Corner
  • 2ality: My TS Sales Pitch
  • 2ality: Unions and intersections of object types
  • 2ality: Gist for createEnum helper
• (17:50) - Community Highlight: Build TypeScript-first BlueSky Bots and Feeds
• (18:27) - Community Highlight: JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back
• (19:06) - Community Highlight: Josh Goldberg Releases v2 of create-typescript-app
• (19:50) - Community Highlight: Alex Teaches Us About Cosine Similarity in TypeScript
  • Plus: 3Blue1Brown explainer video about vector embeddings

Deep Dive: TypeScript is Being Ported to Go

• (22:04) - Deep Dive: TypeScript Is Being Ported to Go
• (23:58) - Deep Dive: Ports vs. Rewrites
• (24:50) - Deep Dive: Why Go?
• (25:54) - Deep Dive: Why Not Rust? Anders Explains
• (28:37) - Deep Dive: Why Not C#?
• (30:20) - Deep Dive: Go's Developer Experience
• (31:27) - Deep Dive: Running Concurrent Type Checking
• (32:54) - Deep Dive: 10X Is Just the Start
• (33:26) - Deep Dive: What's the Roadmap?
• (35:06) - Deep Dive: Impact on Ecosystem
• (43:32) - Deep Dive: Go Use It... in Go
  • Kevin Deng (sxzz) from the Vite team is maintaining a releases repository
• (45:20) - Deep Dive: What's Not Supported Yet
• (46:08) - Deep Dive: Props to the Team

Other Links

• Habitica, a habit tracker
• rspack, a Rust port of webpack
• (47:34) - Secrets of the Handb--Actually, Just Go Build tsgo
• (47:48) - Cool Stuff: acorn-typescript is Now An Actively Maintained Fork
• (48:37) - Cool Stuff: Mentoss, a New Alternative to Nock and MSW
• (50:29) - Cool Stuff: Plane is the OSS JIRA-killer?
• (51:11) - Funny Stuff: Boss Refuses to Use TypeScript, What's the Next Best Thing?

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators & Guests

• Erik Onarheim - Host
• Kamran Ayub - Host