Biome v2 Ships Type-Aware JavaScript Linting Without the TypeScript Compiler
Biome v2, released June 2025, introduces type-aware lint rules and a plugin system without requiring tsc, reaching v2.4 by February 2026.
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Biome v2, released June 2025, introduces type-aware lint rules and a plugin system without requiring tsc, reaching v2.4 by February 2026.
Microsoft ships TypeScript 7.0 Beta featuring a native Go port of the compiler and language service, delivering often 10x faster builds, reduced memory use, and parallelized type-checking for large codebases.
Cloudflare has released EmDash v0.1, a full-stack serverless CMS written in TypeScript atop the Astro framework it acquired in January, promising sandboxed plugin isolation, AI-native management via MCP, and MIT licensing as a direct challenge to the 42.5 percent of the web still running WordPress.
Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version of the compiler written in JavaScript. The release introduces strict-by-default settings and deprecates legacy features ahead of TypeScript 7.0, a full Go rewrite that has shown up to 10x faster compilation in benchmarks.
Microsoft has released TypeScript 6.0, the final major version built on the original JavaScript compiler codebase. The release introduces sweeping default changes, deprecates legacy module formats, and adds a migration flag to prepare codebases for TypeScript 7.0, which will be built entirely in Go.
Microsoft ships the final JavaScript-based TypeScript release, overhauling defaults and deprecating legacy options ahead of a Go-powered compiler rewrite in version 7.0.
GitHub's Octoverse data and a new academic study show AI coding tools are creating self-reinforcing adoption cycles that favor typed languages, with TypeScript adding over a million contributors in a single year.
Deno 2.7 ships stable Temporal date/time API, official Windows ARM builds, npm overrides, and over 40 Node.js compatibility fixes in its February 25 release.
Node.js published versions 25.6.0, 25.6.1, and 25.7.0 across February 2026, advancing built-in SQLite to release-candidate status, extending Single Executable Applications to ESM entry points, and adding SIMD-accelerated text encoding.
TypeScript 6.0 beta is the last version built on JavaScript. The Go-based TypeScript 7.0 promises 10x faster builds.