TypeScript

TypeScript 7, $10,000 AI Slop Removal and Claude Code's Token Bloat - The Weekly Diff #7

TypeScript 7's native compiler lands, a firm charges $10,000 a week to delete AI generated slop, Clawk provides disposable Linux VMs for coding agents, and Claude Code sends 33k tokens before it even reads your prompt. [...]

Side Effect Import Issue in TypeScript

Recently, typescript started giving me an error "Cannot find module or type declarations for side-effect import" every time I load a CSS file or a font file in the entry module of a framework such as Astro(Vite)/Nextjs. The interesting part is, I did not even change the typescript version of my project. It seemed like it was using some other version of typescript. [...]

TypeScript Switches To Go — What Does This Mean for Developers?

TypeScript team unveiled the biggest update yet, announcing a switch from JavaScript to Go, making it 10 times faster, on March 11th, 2025. This is a huge win for developers as it will drastically cut down editor start-up time for significantly large projects as well as improve build time. [...]