Type Stripping is Stable, Type-safe Music, and Rust Engines Enter the Chat | News | Ep 44

News 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.

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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

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)