About this episode
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
NewsJake Bailey: TSGO had a big nightly updateSocket.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 betaAngular 20.2.0 features a stable zoneless API From the Communit
