Strip Your Own Types, New Rust-based Linter, and #ROLP is Trending | News | Ep 22

News for the week of June 9, 2025: Node's type stripping wrapper is released as a standalone package, VoidZero is building a super fast linter, and pnpm introduces experimental virtual store for speeding up package installs. From the community: secure your TS apps, #ROLP, and updated Exploring JS book edition for 2025.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Introduction and Personal News
• (05:34) - News: Amaro, the Node.js Type Stripping Wrapper, Has 1.0 Release
• (06:39) - News: New Oxlint 1.0 Release is 50-100x Faster Than ESLint
• (08:37) - News: pnpm 10.12 Introduces Experimental Global Virtual Store
• (10:14) - News: TypeFire is a New Meta Programming Framework for TS
• (14:37) - News: Go 1.25 Promises Better GC Performance
• (16:01) - News: Apple Announces Safari 26 Enhancements at WWDC
• (18:52) - Community Highlight: Liran Tal's TypeScript Security Talk
• (21:16) - Community Highlight: justin, a JIT Schema Validation Library by cinny.bun.how
• (24:13) - Community Highlight: React Final Form Migrates to TS
• (26:32) - Community Highlight: Flint, Josh Goldberg's New Type-aware Linting Project
• (27:33) - Community Highlight: New Edition of the 'Exploring JavaScript' Book by Dr. Axel
• (28:23) - Community Highlight: Rule of Least Power by Jason Yu
• (29:34) - Cool Tool: Type Buddy Helps Translate Complex Typings
• (30:58) - Cool Tool: node-email-verifier Library for Verifying Emails
• (31:39) - Cool Listen: Bootstrapped Founder and Nathan Barry Podcasts
• (32:55) - Cool Listen: From Microsoft to Full-time OSS Maintainer
• (33:47) - Cool Listen: Alex Lichter on Vite, Rolldown, and oxc
• (34:21) - Cool Listen: Nic Barker's Flexbox-style Layout Library Written in C

News

• Amaro 1.0 release (h/t Rob Palmer) – Node's type stripping wrapper
• Oxlint 1.0 release – TypeScript/JS linter written in Rust from VoidZero
• pnpm 10.12 (h/t socket.dev)
• TypeFire - a meta programming framework for TS (h/t nxjosh)
• Go 1.25 promises more speed! Good news for TSGO? (Video: Go just got faster.. )
• Apple’s WWDC featured Safari 26 Beta improvements, including WebGPU

From the Community

• Liran Tal - Friend or Foe? TypeScript Security Fallacies
• Justin: a typescript data validation library utilizing just-in-time function compilation. (h/t Charlotte / cinny.bun.how)
• 🏁 Final Form goes to TypeScript
• Josh Goldberg's If I Wrote a Linter, Part 4: Summary
• Your code: powerful, but not clean. Here's why (Jason Yu)
• Dr. Axel announces release of ES2025 Edition for Exploring JavaScript

Cool Stuff

• Type Buddy (h/t Seb)
• jesselpalmer/node-email-verifier: A Node.js module for verifying email addresses
• Arvid Kahl's Bootstrapped Founder podcast
• The Nathan Barry Show podcast
• Why Use C for UI Library? | Nic Barker
• Ink, build CLI apps in React
• Josh Goldberg interview on Weekly Devs Brew Podcast
• Alex Lichter of VoidZero on ConTejas Code podcast

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)