Dan Vanderkam
danvdk.bsky.social
Dan Vanderkam
@danvdk.bsky.social
Independent software developer, formerly @sidewalklabs and Google. Author of Effective TypeScript, now in its 2nd edition (May 2024): https://amzn.to/3UjPrsK
Great article from @okr.bsky.social about a very long-running project of mine. Check out all 1,045 words here www.danvk.org/boggle/
May 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
First reaction: Is it April 1 already?
Second reaction: Wow, I have a lot of feelings about this.
Third reaction: Is this what it takes to finally break up checker.ts?
Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
devblogs.microsoft.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Excited to be here! 🦋

And also excited about the new #TypeScript 5.8 beta release. This looks like it's going to be a big one! I'm especially excited that I can forget which library authors have strong feelings about ES modules. devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
Announcing TypeScript 5.8 Beta - TypeScript
Today we are excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.8 Beta. To get started using the beta, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@beta Let’s tak...
devblogs.microsoft.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM