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TS 6 RC, Astro 6, and Web Sanitizer API | News | Ep 58

March 12, 2026 / 52:03/E58 Download MP3

News for the week of March 3, 2026: minor updates in TypeScript 6 Release Candidate, what's new in Astro 6 updates, and latest Chrome revives Sanitizer API. From the community: when to use return types, remembering service workers, and why Patreon took seven years to adopt TypeScript.

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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:35) - News: TypeScript 6 Release Candidate
(07:17) - News: TypeScript 7 Buzz
(07:54) - News: TC39 Intl Era Advances to Stage 4
(08:41) - News: TC39 error.prototype.stack Advances to Stage 2.7
(09:04) - News: Node is Switching Up Release Schedule
(09:46) - News: Chrome Moves to Two Week Release Cycle
(10:43) - News: Chrome 146 Re-introduces Web Sanitizer API
(13:27) - News: Astro 6 Brings the Noise
(20:11) - News: Eleventy Will Become Build Awesome in v4
(21:11) - News: What's New in Svelte for March 2026
(21:32) - PSA: Qwik Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
(22:15) - Library Watch: ArkType 2.2 Brings Runtime Validated Functions
(26:00) - Library Watch: std-semver Ports JSR @std/semver to npm
(27:15) - Community Highlight: When to Use Return Types by Web Dev Simplified
(28:21) - Community Highlight: Whatever Happened to Service Workers? by Mauro Bieg
(30:05) - Community Highlight: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with pnpm
(33:28) - Community Highlight: F# in TypeScript
(34:11) - Community Highlight: Standardizing Source Maps by Jon Kuperman
(34:42) - Community Highlight: Patreon's Seven Years to TS
(36:01) - Community Highlight: Asana Scales with TypeScript and Scala Using GraalVM
(36:49) - Community Highlight: Josh Goldberg at AspireConf
(37:41) - Community Highlight: Flatten a Sphere with TypeScript
(38:27) - Community Highlight: Practical TypeScript by KCD
(39:26) - Secret of the Handbook: private Keyword vs. #private Syntax
(42:01) - Cool Tip: window.stop() API
(42:47) - Cool Quiz: How Well Do You Know Pokemon?
(43:42) - Cool Video: How Pokemon Stitched Together Maps on Gameboy
(44:41) - Cool Link: Union Types Coming to C#
(45:22) - Cool Game: Resident Evil 9
(46:20) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye