TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers

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.

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Chapters

  • (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
  • (05:21) - News: Progress on TypeScript 7 and Upcoming Deprecations
  • (15:24) - News: Advent of Code is Live for Holiday Coding
  • (17:07) - News: Svelte 5.44.0 Introduces hydratable API
  • (19:18) - News: Vite+ FAQ Answers Some Common Questions
  • (20:21) - News: Zed IDE Adds Better TS Error Messages
  • (22:01) - News: TypeScript ESLint Will Simplify Redundant Type Unions
  • (22:24) - Library Watch: Spikard, a Polyglot API Toolkit
  • (23:31) - Library Watch: Type-safe CLIs with Optique
  • (24:09) - Community Highlight: The Summer I Shipped Type Stripping by Marco Ippolito
  • (25:51) - Community Highlight: Building Strongly Typed CLI Applications by John Reilly
  • (27:10) - Community Highlight: Using Zod and TypeScript by Telerik
  • (27:45) - Community Highlight: Lowercase & Uppercase Union by TypedRocks
  • (28:32) - Community Highlight: Improving Bazel Type Checks with Isolated Declarations by Brad Zacher
  • (29:28) - Community Highlight: Data-oriented Modeling by Aapo Alasuutari
  • (32:01) - Community Highlight: Doom in TypeScript Types by Software Engineering Daily
  • (32:17) - Bleet of the Week
  • (32:45) - Cool Watch: Human-sized Lego Castle with 3D Printing
  • (33:42) - Cool Watch: Predators (2010)
  • (34:24) - Cool Watch: dotnetconf Talks
  • (37:20) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

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Creators and Guests

Host
Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
Host
Kamran Ayub
Solopreneur, speaker, and Pluralsight author. Founder of KeepTrackOfMyGames.com.

What is TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers?

The two TypeScript Fools, Kamran Ayub and Erik Onarheim, get together weekly to bring you news, community highlights, and deep dives into the TypeScript ecosystem. Stay up-to-date on what's happening and learn new things to make you a better TypeScript developer along the way!