Bun 1.4, SolidStart v2, and SvelteKit v3 RC | News | Ep 78

News for the weeks of Aug 10 and 17, 2026: major version releases from Bun, ElectroBun, SolidStart, and SvelteKit along with Aspire 13.5, which makes TypeScript app hosts generally available. From the community: self-hosted Durable Objects, anti-slop lint rules, hiding internal state in TS objects, and the true cost of AI coding.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (05:32) - Tooling: Content Mappers Merged Into TS 7.1 API
• (07:20) - Tooling: Bun 1.4, the One with Rust
• (10:27) - Tooling: Aspire 13.5, TypeScript App Hosts Now GA
• (13:13) - Metaframeworks: SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is Here
• (15:33) - Metaframeworks: SolidStart V2 is Now Stable
• (17:24) - Web Platform: celld, Self-Hosted Workers and Durable Objects
• (19:02) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Announces $1 Million in Open Source Funding
• (20:36) - Web Platform: Node.js Interactive 2026 Talks
• (22:37) - Web Platform: Netlify Source for Hosting Git Version Control
• (24:20) - Security: Popular Rust Crates Compromised
• (25:29) - Library Watch: Slonick, a Node.js Postgres Client
• (27:12) - Library Watch: deopt, Analyze Node.js and V8 De-optimizations
• (29:15) - Library Watch: Electrobun 2, Now with a Custom Runtime
• (35:24) - Library Watch: Anti-slop Lint Rules
• (36:54) - Library Watch: yavascript Builds Cross-platform Bash-like Script Runners
• (38:46) - Community: Ryan Peterman Interviews Anders Heijlsberg
• (39:20) - Community: Matt Pocock Interviews Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI
• (39:43) - Community: Josh Goldberg Steps Back from OSS
• (41:21) - Community: Academind Teaches Us About Self-hosted Durable Objects
• (41:32) - Community: Remco Wrote an MDX Content Mapper for TS 7
• (42:28) - Community: Feross Aboukhadijeh on How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
• (43:26) - Community: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript
• (44:50) - Community: Scott Tolinksi on the True Cost of AI Coding
• (45:53) - Community: Carlos Menezes on Hiding Internal State in TS Objects
• (48:10) - Community: Tommy Rossi's Manifesto on Errors as Values in TS
• (49:58) - Community: Brett Codes on How to Make TypeScript and JavaScript Error Handling Better
• (50:34) - Community: Tero Piirainen Thinks the Bun 1.4 Rust Rewrite is Not Looking Good
• (52:08) - Community: GameDev.js Survey 2026 is Open
• (52:32) - Bleet of the Week
• (54:04) - Cool Link: Don't Paste the AI
• (59:14) - Cool Link: Local-first Landscape
• (01:00:34) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• TypeScript: Content Mappers merged into 7.1 branch
• Bun: Bun 1.4 (Video: Bun v1.4 )
• Aspire: What's new in Aspire 13.5
• Svelte: The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here
• Solid: SolidStart v2 is now Stable
• Deno: celld, self-host your own Durable Objects
• Cloudflare: Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
• Node.js: Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap
• Netlify Source: The full power of Git, without the friction: A conversation with Netlify CTO Dana Lawson
• Socket: Popular Rust Crates Compromised in Build-Time Supply Chain Attack

Library Watch

• gajus/slonik: A Node.js PostgreSQL client with runtime and build time type safety, and composable SQL
• deopt: Analyze Node.js and V8 de-optimizations
• Electrobun 2.0 comes with a new purpose-built runtime and CLI
• Anti-slop lint rules
  • Biome https://github.com/kualta/anti-slop
  • Oxlint https://github.com/dmmulroy/anti-slop
• YavaScript lets you build cross-platform Bash-like script runners

From the Community

• Ryan Peterman: Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
• Matt Pocock: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI
• Josh Goldberg: Stepping Back from Open Source (Mostly) | Goldblog
• Josh Goldberg: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuakgoldberg.com/post/3mtehtwtyrs2i
• Academind: Self-hosted durable objects are pretty interesting!
• Remco: mdx-content-mapper for TS 7
• Feross Aboukhadijeh: How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
• Reddit: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript
• Scott Tolinski: The True Cost of AI Coding
• Carlos Menezes: Hiding internal state in TypeScript objects
• Tommy Rossi: Errors as Values in TypeScript
• Brett Codes: TypeScript & JavaScript error handling is pretty bad (and how to make it better)
• Tero Piirainen: Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good