{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers","title":"Progress on TypeScript 7, Advent of Code as an Excuse to Learn Zig, and Type-safe CLIs | News | Ep 46","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/24b97fe8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2551,"description":"News for the week of November 24, 2025: TypeScript team discusses progress on TS 7 and upcoming deprecations for TS 6. Plus, Svelte's new hydratable API. From the community: creating strongly-typed CLIs with yargs, magic union types to check characters, and how TypedArray can reduce memory usage.Sponsored by Excalibur.jsExcalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.comMake Your First Game in 10 MinutesJoin the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985UyChaptersNewsTypeScript Blog: Progress on TypeScript 7Advent of Code is live!Svelte 5.44.0 introduces `hydratable` APIVite+: New FAQ Zed v0.214.0, now with better TS ErrorsTypeScript-ESLint 8.48.0 adds type union redundancy checkLibrary Watch: spikard, a polyglot API toolkitLibrary Watch: Optique 0.7.0 (via Hong Minhee)From the CommunityMarco Ippolito: Summer I Shipped Type StrippingJohn Reilly: Yargs: statically typed builder commands (via johnnyreilly)Telerik: Zod + TypeScript: Schema Validation Made Easy TypedRocks: The Secret Power of The  Lowercase & Uppercase UNION in TypeScript Brad Zacher: Improving Bazel TypeScript TypeChecks With IsolatedDeclarations (via Rob Palmer)Aapo Alasuutari: Interlude: A data-oriented modelSoftware Engineering Daily: Josh and Dmitri talk about Doom in TypeScript TypesCool LinksCool Watch: NFTI building a 3D printed castleCool Watch: Predators (2010)Cool Watch: dotnetconfCool Link: Aspire.dev, code-first local dev environmentsMusicSeahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LUVFPtghCfQs9Z5cmq099b61B1Uvk41woCYRjlvHUak/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jY2Ew/ZThkMTZkZGNiN2E2/Mzc1MmI5NWI0ZjU0/YjA3MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}