TypeScript 5.9 Beta, Redonkulous Linting, and a Community Enum Syntax Proposal | News | Ep 26

News of the week of July 7, 2025: We dive into the TypeScript 5.9 beta, an experimental Go linter for TS/JS, plus make sure you upgrade your Node.js versions! From the community: a new enum syntax proposal in case JS doesn't get native enums, TSL brings faster type-aware linting, and trashh_dev asks TypeScript: WTF?


Chapters




• (00:00) - Introduction and Personal News



• (07:10) - News: TypeScript 5.9 Beta



• (19:42) - News: tsgolint, an Experimental JS/TS Native Linter



• (21:56) - PSA: Upgrade Your Node.js 20.x, 22.x, and 24.x Installations



• (22:46) - Community Highlight: TSL, a New Type-aware Linter



• (25:00) - Community Highlight: New typescript-eslint Homepage Preview



• (26:04) - Community Highlight: New Enum Syntax Proposal by Naman



• (29:53) - Community Highlight: WTF TypeScript by trashh_dev



• (31:27) - Community Highlight: Migrating MorphKit to NativeScript with LLMs



• (33:47) - Community Highlight: ariadne-ts Brings Rust-style Diagnostic Messages to TS



• (35:20) - Cool Link: Get Current Weather in Your Terminal



• (36:12) - Cool Link: JSON Repair



• (37:09) - Cool Link: aws/jsii Lets You Consume TS Libs from Python, Java, and C#



• (39:38) - Cool Link: Check Road Conditions in Colorado with cotrip.org


Personal News
• Sorry for the delay, Kamran's on vacation!
• Follow Kamran's trip on Insta (  / kamranicus  )

News

• Announcing TypeScript 5.9 Beta (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typesc...)  
• tsgolint, an experimental proof-of-concept typescript-go powered JS/TS linter written in Go (https://github.com/typescript-eslint/...)
• PSA: High-severity security patches (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabil...) coming to Node.js (http://node.js) on Patch Tuesday for 24.x, 22.x, and 20.x release lines!

From the Community

• Arnaud Barré: Introducing tsl, an extension of tsc for type-aware linting! (https://bsky.app/profile/arnaud-barre...)
• Joshua Goldberg: New TypeScript Eslint homepage (https://bsky.app/profile/joshuakgoldb...)
• Naman: New enum syntax for TypeScript (https://nmn.sh/blog/2025-03-09-new-en...)  
• Chris Batiste (trashh_dev): WTF Typescript (   • WTF Typescript?! (The Standup)  )  
• nStudio: Morphing Swift to 100% TypeScript with NativeScript + AI (https://nstudio.io/blog/morphing-swif...)
• Ariadne-ts v0.3.0: Beautiful Diagnostics in TypeScript (https://github.com/Duroktar/ariadne-ts) (h/t Reddit (  / ariadnets_v030_beautiful_diagnostics_in_ty...  ) )
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Cool Stuff

• aws/jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes (https://github.com/aws/jsii)
• COtrip.org (https://cotrip.org/) – get road conditions in Colorado
• `curl wttr.in (http://wttr.in) ` -- Weather from the terminal
• josdejong/jsonrepair: Repair invalid JSON documents (https://github.com/josdejong/jsonrepair)  

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (https://kubbi.bandcamp.com/track/seah...) (Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/38dW2...) )