About this episode
This week's a non-AI episode!
It’s been a minute since we last discussed Bun, but the team is back with a new release. In v1.3.10, the REPL’s completely rewritten in Zig, barrel imports are optimized, and the JavaScriptCore engine got upgraded for big perf gains.
Npmx, a fast, modern browser for the npm registry has reached alpha version in less than 2 months of existence. Its goal is to make it easy for devs to find, evaluate, and manage npm packages, and boasts cool features like the ability to compare packages and even launch demo environments directly from package READMEs.
Solid 2.0.0 jumped straight from experimental to beta this week, and it introduces changes like: async is first-class, derived state is a primitive, dev guardrails to prevent foot guns, and a DOM cleanup model.
Timestamps:
- 2:04 - Bun v1.3.10
- 8:39 - npmx
- 13:03 - Solid 2.0 beta
- 22:42 - PlanetScale bought Drizzle ORM
- 23:46 - Safari is getting customizable <select>s
- 27:26 - Fire starter
- 30:15 - What’s making us happy
News:
- Paige - npmx
- Jack - Solid 2.0 beta
- TJ - Bun v1.3.10
Lightning News:
Fire Starter:
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
- Paige - Kytin Parasole shoes
- Jack - Immich
- TJ - Stratechery’s coverage of the Anthropic v. DoW saga
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