Deno 2.8 Pushes Node Compatibility to 75%, Rolldown 1.0, and Mini Shai-Hulud | News | Ep 67

About this episode

This episode covers the latest news in the TypeScript community, including Deno's increased Node compatibility and various library updates.

News for the week of May 11, 2026 : Deno 2.8 brings Node compatibility to 75%, Bun's Rust port is taking shape, and more supply chain sadness. From the community: SpacetimeDB's JS engine is faster than Rust, scrapping a custom DSL in favor of TypeScript, and why Effect is good for AI agents. 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 (05:34) - News: Deno 2.8 Brings Node Compat to Just Over 75% (07:57) - News: VS Code Codebase Type Checked by TS 7 (08:15) - News: Bun's Rust Port Coming in Next 1.4 Release (13:55) - News: Rolldown 1.0 Released (17:32) - News: GitHub Takes Aim at Claude Code and Codex with New Copilot App (18:58) - PSA: Upgrade Next.js Due to Recent CVEs (19:52) - PSA: TanStack Supply Chain Incident Post-mortem (23:48)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kamran Ayub, Erik Onarheim

Topics covered

• Deno
• Node compatibility
• Supply chain issues
• TypeScript
• Game development
• Library updates

Keywords

• Deno 2.8
• Node compatibility
• Excalibur.js
• TypeScript
• supply chain
• Rolldown 1.0
• VS Code
• Bun
• SpacetimeDB

Sponsors

Excalibur.js

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deno, Bun, SpacetimeDB, VS Code, GitHub, Next.js, TanStack, node-ipc, Vitest, styleframe

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