News for the week of October 27, 2025: TypeScript is the #1 language on GitHub, making your Regex type-safe, and Biome adds support for three new metaframeworks. From the community: a metaframework for Angular, PHP in JS, and a polyglot runtime that will blow your mind.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
- (05:36) - News: TypeScript Won in 2025
- (12:43) - News: Vercel Now Supports the Bun Runtime
- (12:59) - News: Announcing ArkRegex for Typing Regex
- (16:37) - News: Safe Chain Can Proxy Your npm Installs
- (17:48) - News: Biome 2.3 Adds Support for Vue, Svelte, and Astro
- (19:05) - News: What's New in ViteLand?
- (22:58) - Community Highlight: Hire Josh Goldberg!
- (23:52) - Community Highlight: AnalogJS is a Meta Framework for Angular
- (25:00) - Community Highlight: Rendu, a JS Hypertext Preprocessor
- (27:24) - Runtime Watch: Elide, a Polyglot Runtime for JS, TS, Python, and More
- (31:29) - Tool Watch: dpdm, to Fix Circular Dependencies
- (32:57) - Library Watch: flowcraft, a Lightweight Workflow Engine
- (34:52) - Tool Watch: Trigger.dev, a Hosted Workflow Engine
- (37:07) - Bleet of the Week
- (37:32) - Secrets of the Handbook: ?? and infer
- (41:28) - Cool Watch: 10 Useful CLI Apps You've Never Heard Of
- (42:38) - Cool Watch: Porffor, an Ahead-of-Time Compiler for JS
- (46:31) - Cool Watch: Ladybird Browser October Update
- (47:00) - Cool Tool: Gimli Tailwind, a Browser Devtools Extension
- (48:07) - Cool Tool: PowerSync, a Local-first Sync Engine
- (50:28) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
From the Community
Cool Links
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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
