969: This guy is nuts (TypeScript Doom)
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
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?
TSperf
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
Sick Picks
Dimitri: pullfrog
Shameless Plugs
Dimitri: Michigan TypeScript on YouTube
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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has become so widespread that it spawned the r/itrunsdoom sub-Reddit.
Recently, Doom made headlines again for being ported to TypeScript. The project involved representing Doom entirely in TypeScript, three and a half trillion lines of types, 90 GB of RAM to run, and a full year to complete.
Dimitri Mitropoulos is the engineer who carried out this heroic feat. He’s also a developer at Vercel, the founder of Michigan Typescript, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf. Dimitri joins the podcast with Josh Goldberg to talk about what it took to pull off one of the most mind-bending TypeScript projects to date.
Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.
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It's all about the squiggles
Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities.
We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic’s impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!
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Featuring:
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Show Notes:
SquiggleConf
ESLint
TypeScript ESLint
Mocha
Learning TypeScript book
Michigan TypeScript
Boston TS Club
NebraskaJS
Oh My Zsh (tool by Robbie Russell)
React
Vue
Go programming language
TypeScript
New England Aquarium conference venue
Squiggle Conf Discord
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!