Astro 6.4, Rust's Restriction on LLMs, and Why tsgo Uses So Much Memory | News | Ep 69

About this episode

The episode discusses the latest news in TypeScript and related technologies, including Astro's new features and Rust's stance on LLMs.

News for the week of May 25, 2026 : Astro's new Markdown processor API, Rust's take on LLM authorship, and new stage 4 TC39 proposals. From the community: highlights. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (03:32) - News: Astro 6.4 Has a New Markdown Processor API (06:16) - News: What's New in Svelte, June 2026 (07:01) - News: Rust Moves to Restrict LLM Use for rust/lang (13:25) - News: Porffor.dev is Now Served From a Native TS Binary (14:45) - News: Several ECMAScript Proposals Moving to Stage 4 (18:10) - Security: Malicious Postinstall Hooks Found in 700+ GH Repositories (20:22) - Library Watch: Replacements.fyi Helps Find Replacement Libraries (21:52) - Library Watch: Sandcastle Helps You Sandbox Local Coding Agents (23:30)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kamran Ayub, Erik Onarheim

Topics covered

• Astro 6.4
• Rust LLM restrictions
• ECMAScript proposals
• TypeScript libraries
• Community updates

Keywords

• Astro
• Rust
• TypeScript
• ECMAScript
• Excalibur.js
• Svelte
• LLM
• game development
• npm publishing

Sponsors

Excalibur.js

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Astro, Rust, Svelte, Porffor.dev, ECMAScript, 2ality, rspack, Thales, tsgo

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