Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
969: This guy is nuts (TypeScript Doom)
55 minutes Posted Jan 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Welcome to Syntax!
Dimitri Mitropoulos Introduction
What is Doom in TypeScript?
TypeScript Types and Turing Completeness
Project Overview and Challenges
ASCII Art and Visual Representation
Performance Issues with TypeScript
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Typeslayer Tool Introduction
Building in Tauri
Challenges around packaging
Future of TypeScript and AI
Is the Go-based compiler significantly faster?
Should there be something to follow Typescript?
Staying up to date with WASM.
SquiggleConf Overview
Hosting a conference
What are your thoughts on Zig?
Vibe coding as an end goal
Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
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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
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Sick Picks
Dimitri: pullfrog
Shameless Plugs
Dimitri: Michigan TypeScript on YouTube
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