Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2026)
by pmoati on Monday March 09, 2026 @07:45AM
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I'm building Pithos (https://pithos.dev), a zero-dependency TypeScript utility ecosystem.
Five modules, one package:
data utilities (Arkhe), schema validation (Kanon), Result/Option types (Zygos), typed error classes (Sphalma), and a Lodash migration bridge (Taphos).
The idea is that these patterns compose natively:
Validate with Kanon, get a typed Result back via Zygos, chain transformations with Arkhe.
One pipeline, no try/catch, full type inference.
Benchmarks: ~4x smaller and 5-11x faster than Zod, ~21x smaller than Lodash, ~3x smaller than Neverthrow.
Five modules, one package: data utilities (Arkhe), schema validation (Kanon), Result/Option types (Zygos), typed error classes (Sphalma), and a Lodash migration bridge (Taphos).
The idea is that these patterns compose natively: Validate with Kanon, get a typed Result back via Zygos, chain transformations with Arkhe. One pipeline, no try/catch, full type inference.
Benchmarks: ~4x smaller and 5-11x faster than Zod, ~21x smaller than Lodash, ~3x smaller than Neverthrow.
Available on npm as @pithos/core