Bun.WebView, Cursor's Big Bet, and Whether Mythos Just Spells Marketing | News | Ep 63
Download MP3News for the week of April 6, 2026: latest Bun release adds automated headless browser automation, whether Anthropic is using fear-based marketing, and major releases from Storybook and Docusaurus. From the community: why nominal typing deserves to be first-class, what to do about OSS vulnerabilities, and lessons from building a Rust runtime for TS.
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Chapters
- (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
- (04:41) - News: Bun 1.3.12 Introduces WebView and Markdown Renderer
- (06:52) - News: Does Claude Mythos Spell Doom or Is It Just Marketing?
- (10:06) - News: Cursor 3 is Betting That the IDE Will Be Dead
- (15:20) - News: Ember.js is Using Vite by Default Now
- (15:52) - News: SvelteKit, Now with TS 6 Support
- (16:02) - News: VoidZero Experiments with Making Angular Compiler Faster
- (18:05) - News: Docusaurus 3.10 Prepares for v4 Release
- (20:12) - News: Storybook 10.3, React MCP and Type-safe CSF Factories
- (21:03) - Library Watch: better-translate, Type-safe Internationalization
- (22:25) - Library Watch: tiny-tts, Offline CPU Text-to-Speech in Node.js
- (24:06) - Library Watch: Pagyra, HTML to PDF in TypeScript
- (25:35) - Library Watch: PayKit, a TypeScript Billing Framework
- (26:54) - Library Watch: tsnapi, Snapshot Your TS Library Surface
- (27:43) - Highlight: What's New in JavaScript 2026 by Frontend Masters
- (28:51) - Highlight: Parse, Don't Validate -- In A Language That Doesn't Want You To by Cekrem
- (33:16) - Highlight: Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript by Encore
- (35:55) - Highlight: Weak Map Memory Leak Trap by Peter Kroner
- (37:57) - Highlight: TypeScript 6 and CSS Side Effect Imports by Schalk Neethling
- (40:30) - Highlight: Integrating TS Go and the Effect LSP
- (41:44) - Highlight: Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js
- (43:24) - Highlight: Prisma Next Makes MongoDB Type-safe
- (44:21) - Highlight: Just Keep Vulnerabilities Open by James Sumners
- (48:46) - Bleet of the Week
- (51:18) - Cool Video: Real-time Sand Simulation... in SQL
- (52:16) - Cool Video: Building a Programming Language from Scratch Using TypeScript
- (53:03) - Cool Language: Xena, Inspired by TypeScript
- (55:18) - Cool Read: Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare
- (57:21) - Cool Read: Cloudflare Sandboxes are Now GA
- (58:01) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
- Bun 1.3.12
- Claude Mythos Preview
- Anthropic's Red Team blog post goes into detail
- Claude Mythos is Actually Scary
- You Actually Do Need to Understand Mythos
- The New Stack: Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default
- Ember.js is using vite by default
- SvelteKit 2.56.0 has TS 6.0 support
- VoidZero: How we made the Angular Compiler faster using AI
- Docusaurus 3.10
- Storybook 10.3
Library Watch
- better-translate: Type-safe i8n for any TypeScript project
- tiny-tts: Zero-dependency CPU-only text-to-speech with ONNX model
- pagrya-js: HTML-to-PDF in pure TypeScript
- PayKit: TypeScript billing framework
- tsnapi: Snapshot testing utility for the public API for library maintainers
From the Community
- Frontend Masters: What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)
- Cekrem: Parse, Don't Validate — In a Language That Doesn't Want You T
- Encore: What We Learned Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript
- Peter Kroner: The WeakMap Subtype Memory Leak Trap
- Schalk Neethling: TypeScript 6.0 and CSS Side-Effect Imports
- Effect.js: TypeScript-Go with Effect LSP
- Railway: Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js
- Prisma Next: MongoDB Without Compromise
- James Sumners: Open Source & Security
- Bleet of the Week: types *are* the job
Cool Links
- Video: I Made Real-Time Sand Simulation in SQL
- Video: Can I build my own programming language from scratch? w/ TypeScript
- Language: https://github.com/elematic/zena
- Read: Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
- Read: Sandboxes are GA
- Read: Managers and Executives Disagree on AI—and It’s Costing Companies
- Read: White-collar workers are quietly rebelling against AI as 80% outright refuse adoption mandates
Creators and Guests
Host
Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
