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Scott and Wes sit down with Dimitri Mitropoulos to explore the wild edges of TypeScript—from running Doom in the type system to building tools like Typeslayer. They dig into Turing-complete types, performance limits, and what the future might hold for TypeScript and programming languages as a whole.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:27 Dimitri Mitropoulos Introduction
01:29 What is Doom in TypeScript?
03:10 TypeScript Types and Turing Completeness
04:06 Project Overview and Challenges
04:57 ASCII Art and Visual Representation
06:50 Performance Issues with TypeScript
09:27 Brought to you by Sentry.io
09:51 Typeslayer Tool Introduction
16:19 Building in Tauri
20:54 Challenges around packaging
24:03 Future of TypeScript and AI
27:40 Is the Go-based compiler significantly faster?
TSperf
30:23 Should there be something to follow Typescript?
