Episode Details

News for the week of October 27, 2025: TypeScript is the #1 language on GitHub, making your Regex type-safe, and Biome adds support for three new metaframeworks. From the community: a metaframework for Angular, PHP in JS, and a polyglot runtime that will blow your mind.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (05:36) - News: TypeScript Won in 2025
• (12:43) - News: Vercel Now Supports the Bun Runtime
• (12:59) - News: Announcing ArkRegex for Typing Regex
• (16:37) - News: Safe Chain Can Proxy Your npm Installs
• (17:48) - News: Biome 2.3 Adds Support for Vue, Svelte, and Astro
• (19:05) - News: What's New in ViteLand?
• (22:58) - Community Highlight: Hire Josh Goldberg!
• (23:52) - Community Highlight: AnalogJS is a Meta Framework for Angular
• (25:00) - Community Highlight: Rendu, a JS Hypertext Preprocessor
• (27:24) - Runtime Watch: Elide, a Polyglot Runtime for JS, TS, Python, and More
• (31:29) - Tool Watch: dpdm, to Fix Circular Dependencies
• (32:57) - Library Watch: flowcraft, a Lightweight Workflow Engine
• (34:52) - Tool Watch: Trigger.dev, a Hosted Workflow Engine
• (37:07) - Bleet of the Week
• (37:32) - Secrets of the Handbook: ?? and infer
• (41:28) - Cool Watch: 10 Useful CLI Apps You've Never Heard Of
• (42:38) - Cool Watch: Porffor, an Ahead-of-Time Compiler for JS
• (46:31) - Cool Watch: Ladybird Browser October Update
• (47:00) - Cool Tool: Gimli Tailwind, a Browser Devtools Extension
• (48:07) - Cool Tool: PowerSync, a Local-first Sync Engine
• (50:28) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• Octoverse: TypeScript is the most used language on GitHub 🎉
• Bun: Vercel now supports the Bun Runtime 
• ArkType: Introducing ArkRegex (Reddit, Discord, Bluesky)
• Aikaido: Introducing Safe Chain: Stopping Malicious npm Packages Before They Wreck Your Project
• Biome 2.3 supports Vue, Svelte, Astro, and more. 
• VoidZero: What’s New in ViteLand: October 2025 Recap

From the Community

• Friend of the Show Josh Goldberg is looking for a full time position 👀
• AnalogJS 2.0 is a metaframework for Angular with SSR/SSG and file-based routing
• Alexander Lichter: Wait - PHP IN JS!? What is rendu
• Elide is a polyglot runtime, think: import Python modules from TypeScript
• Tool Watch: acrazing/dpdm: Detect circular dependencies in your TypeScript projects
• Library Watch: gorango/flowcraft: A lightweight workflow engine 
• Tool Watch: Trigger.dev, a hosted agentic workflow engine
• Fabi.dev quick tip: Do you know the difference between || and ??
• muszynov:

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