Episode Details

News of the week of September 1, 2025: Deno Fresh 2.0 is now in beta, Swift 6.2 adds WASM support, and a serious spear-phishing attack on npm maintainers. From the community: looking back on TypeScript, optimizing immutability, type-safe state machines, sharing Wi-Fi links, and some prolific open source work.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (05:20) - News: New ESLint Rule to Prevent Empty Type Argument Lists
• (06:43) - News: Deno Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta with Vite Support
• (09:17) - News: Rolldown Will Ship as ESM-only
• (10:55) - News: Swift 6.2 Adds WASM Support
• (12:17) - Reminder: TypeScript AI Conf in San Francisco on Nov 6
• (12:42) - PSA: Upgrade Your Vite Packages
• (14:53) - PSA: Massive npm Supply Chain Attack
• (22:05) - News: GhostAction Attack Exfiltrated Secrets from GitHub Actions
• (24:42) - Community Highlight: TypeScript 1.5 Was 10 Years Ago
• (25:54) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Corner
• (27:38) - Community Highlight: Perf Improvements Coming to Immer.js
• (28:40) - Community Highlight: Meta AI Piracy Case Might Owe Authors Money
• (29:26) - Library Watch: Easily Create Wi-Fi Share Links
• (30:58) - Library Watch: Type-safe State Machines
• (32:37) - Library Watch: Eclipse Modeling Framework for TypeScript
• (34:33) - Library Watch: A Tiny Translate Utility for TypeScript
• (35:13) - Community Highlight: Azat's OSS Tools
• (38:09) - This Week's TypeScript Joke
• (38:33) - Cool Library: 2D Geometry and Math Utilities
• (39:11) - Cool Watch: The Business Side of Digital Goods
• (40:18) - Cool Read: A New Way to Think by Roger Martin
• (43:47) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• typescript-eslint v8.43.0 introduces a new rule to disallow empty type arguments
• Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta, Adds Vite Support (h/t deno)
• Rolldown will only be shipping as ESM, dropping their CJS bundle (h/t VoidZero)
  • Clarification: It will still bundle your code as CJS; this applies only to Rolldown itself.
• Swift for Wasm: Q3 2025 Updates (h/t maxdesiatov)
• Reminder: TypeScript AI Conf is Nov 6
• PSA: Vite CVEs. Upgrade your packages!
  • CISA mailing list for cybersecurity incidents
• PSA: Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack
• PSA: Hackers steal 3,325 secrets in GhostAction GitHub supply chain attack

From the Community

• TS 1.5 nostalgia (h/t rob palmer)
• Dr. Axel’s Corner
  • Learning web development: Frontend frameworks 
  • Learning web development: Installing npm