TS7 in the Playground, Parcel 3 Goes 100x Faster, and Excalibur Hits 1.0 | News | Ep 89
Download MP3News for the week of November 2, 2026: the TypeScript Playground now runs the Go-based TS7 in your browser, Parcel 3 is a ground-up Rust rewrite that's up to 100x faster, and Excalibur hits 1.0 after thirteen years. From the community: TypeScript running inside its own type system, flawless Chrome tab capture, and what to do about too many TypeScripts.
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Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
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Chapters
- (00:00) - Tooling: TypeScript Playground V2 Powered by WASM
- (03:00) - Tooling: Porffor passes 96% of test262 and has better Node compat
- (04:29) - Tooling: Node.js security updates for November 11
- (05:18) - Tooling: Node.js 27 alpha notable changes in V8
- (06:24) - Tooling: Rune is a terminal IDE that supports TypeScript 7
- (08:11) - Tooling: Parcel V3 is a ground-up rewrite in Rust
- (10:45) - Tooling: Playwright test runner now supports Bun
- (12:21) - Frameworks: Excalibur reaches 1.0 milestone
- (18:07) - Web Platform: Cloudflare is enabling Temporal API in workers starting in December
- (19:16) - Web Platform: Safari 27.3 beta brings more modern web goodies
- (23:42) - Security: GitHub moving to block pull_request_target workflows in December
- (24:51) - Security: 9 tips to harden your GitHub actions against outside threats
- (31:54) - Library watch: Lume 4.0 is out, a static site generator
- (32:40) - Library watch: TanStack AI 1.0 is now stable
- (35:27) - Library watch: Kysely, a type-safe SQL builder
- (36:27) - Community: tstst, TypeScript in the TypeScript Type System
- (37:28) - Community: State of JavaScript 2026 survey is out!
- (38:00) - Community: I'm feeling lost with all the TypeScript options now
- (41:30) - Community: Tales from the Void, October 2026 recap
- (42:15) - Community: Daniel Roe makes vite-plugin-checker
- (43:44) - Community: Better Stack on the new tsrs TypeScript Rust port
- (44:17) - Community: Paul Irish's Chrome Capture takes flawless videos of your Chrome
- (46:03) - Bleet of the week
- (46:40) - Cool Link: .NET 11 and its new async runtime
- (50:36) - Cool video: I let AI refactor my codebase for 3 weeks, then I read the code
- (52:32) - Cool link: Not everything needs an LLM by PostHog engineering
- (54:35) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
- Tooling & Runtimes
- TypeScript: A new TypeScript Playground supporting the Go-based TS7 (via Rob Palmer)
- Porffor: Now passing ~96% of Test262, with decent Node compat (via Oliver Medhurst)
- Notable V8 changes from Node.js 26 to 27 (Alpha)
- Rune 1.3 is released – Kitty graphics and tier 1 TypeScript support
- Announcing Parcel 3 alpha
- Playwright v1.65.0 – Run tests with Bun
- Frameworks
- Web Platform
- Cloudflare: Temporal will be enabled by default in Workers from December 1, 2026 (via Rob Palmer)
- Related: Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript (Bloomberg)
- Related: Temporal: It's about time! (Jason Williams, State of the Browser)
- Safari: Safari 27.3 Beta ships Temporal, using, import defer, and more (via Rob Palmer)
- Cloudflare: Temporal will be enabled by default in Workers from December 1, 2026 (via Rob Palmer)
- Security Corner
Library Watch
- Lume 4: The future of Lume, the static site generator
- TanStack AI 1.0: Still Your AI, Still Your Way
- Joist 2.5: State Machines, PostgreJS, Read Locks, Metrics
- Kysely: Type-safe SQL query builder, in production at a lot of companies since 2021
From the Community
- zzj3720: TSTST, TypeScript compiling TypeScript inside its own type system (via Adam)
- Sacha Greif: The 2026 State of JavaScript survey is now open
- Reddit: Feeling lost with all the TypeScript options now. What are you actually using?
- VoidZero: Tales from the Void: October 2026 Recap
- Daniel Roe: vite-plugin-checker v1 is out
- Better Stack: TypeScript Got Ported To Rust... And It's 3x Faster Than Go
- Paul Irish: chrome-capture, flawless no-dropped-frames AV1 capture of a Chrome tab
- Bleet of the Week: Installing TypeScript security patches...
Cool Links
- AI Engineer: I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code. (Keiji Kanazawa, Microsoft)
- Microsoft Learn: What's new in .NET 11 runtime
- .NET Blog: Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (Stephen Toub)
- PostHog: Not everything needs an LLM (Jina Yoon)
Creators and Guests
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Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
