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A comment on Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal).

Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) by jauco on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:38PM (#48213780)
Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

(I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)

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Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) by pier25 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @05:02PM (#48214083)
Initially it didn't make sense to me... but it looks like type striping is really the way to go for future TS.

There's the "types as comments" proposal[1] which could even land on browsers one day.

I started using the erasableSyntaxOnly setting in my tsconfig to get ready for this.

[1] https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

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Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) by sexylinux on Thursday May 21, 2026 @04:42AM (#48219604)
At this point we should really prompt all the AI power in the world we have to create a TS replacement. It seems grotesque.
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Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) by pier25 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:10PM (#48228942)
Something that uses WASM probably has more chances to succeed given the massive effort/investment in the past decade to shift from JS to TS.
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