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. 🔥 Be the ~18,300th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack
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?
30:23 Should there be something to follow Typescript?
36:27 Staying up to date with WASM.
37:08 SquiggleConf Overview
38:26 Hosting a conference
40:45 What are your thoughts on Zig?
45:07 Vibe coding as an end goal
50:01 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
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