Type Stripping is Stable, Type-safe Music, and Rust Engines Enter the Chat | News | Ep 44
Download MP3News for the week of November 10, 2025: Node 25 marks type stripping as stable, the downlow on some new Rust-based JavaScript and TypeScript engines, and a new browser for keyboard lovers. From the community: visualize how types work, using .NET Aspire without .NET, type-safe SQL, and an experimental Rust-based type checker.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.
- Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
- Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
- Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy
Chapters
- (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
- (04:36) - News: TypeScript 6 Scheduled for Early 2026
- (05:26) - News: Node 25.2.0 Marks Type Stripping as Stable
- (07:51) - News: Andromeda, a New TypeScript-native Runtime
- (09:15) - News: Brimstone, a New Rust-based JavaScript Engine
- (11:24) - News: Glide, a Browser for Neovim Dandies
- (15:26) - Community Highlight: Ludum Dare Creator is Open for Business
- (16:18) - Community Highlight: Visual Types by Kit Langton
- (18:34) - Community Highlight: Taking the .NET Out of Aspire by David Gardiner
- (19:58) - Community Highlight: We Could Have Been Rad Developers
- (21:08) - Library Watch: squeeel, a Type-safe SQL Builder
- (22:16) - Library Watch: DomoActorsTS, an Actor Model Framework
- (24:35) - Library Watch: Contour 2.0, Type-safe Music
- (26:02) - Library Watch: Hashery, Efficient Object Hashing
- (28:33) - Tool Watch: Ezno, a Rust-Based Type Checker
- (31:13) - Bleet of the Week
- (31:41) - Cool Tool: Debug Your Docker Build Context
- (34:47) - Cool Read: Nuxt MCP Server
- (35:19) - Cool Tool: WXT, a Modern Web Extension Framework
- (35:51) - Cool Watch: PolyMatt Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch
- (36:44) - Cool Tool: Quicker Neovim Extension
- (37:49) - Cool Tool: GemShell, a Way to Package Up Games
- (38:53) - Cool App: xelly.games, a Game-sharing Social Network
- (39:38) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
- TS 6.0 Expected in Early 2026
- Node 25.2.0 (Current) marks type stripping as stable!
- Andromeda, a native TypeScript runtime alternative to Deno (h/t Rob Palmer)
- Brimstone, a JavaScript engine written from scratch in Rust
- Glide, a Firefox-based browser for neovim dandies
From the Community
- Kit Langton: Visual Types — A Set of Animated TypeScript Concepts (h/t Reddit)
- David Gardiner: Aspire with Python, React, Rust and Node apps
- Rob Palmer: Alternative names for ECMAScript that were originally considered
- Library Watch: squeeel, a type-safe SQL builder
- Library Watch: DomoActors-TS, a TypeScript library for the actor model
- Library Watch: Contour 2.0 “Music Composition as Code” (h/t kootenay-eric)
- Library Watch: Hashery (h/t jaredwray.com)
- Tool Watch: Ezno, a Rust TypeScript type checker (h/t fasterthanli.me)
Cool Links
- Cool Watch: PolyMatt on YouTube makes a floppy disk from scratch
- Cool Tool: Quicker.nvim, a better quickfix list
- Cool Tool: gemshell, a tool to package up web games
- Cool Tool: Debug your Docker build context
- Cool Read: Building an MCP Server for Nuxt
- Cool Tool: WXT – a modern web extensions framework
- Cool App: xelly.games - a game-sharing social network
Creators and Guests
Host
Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
