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Bun.WebView, Cursor's Big Bet, and Whether Mythos Just Spells Marketing | News | Ep 63
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- Apr 16, 2026
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News for the week of April 6, 2026 : latest Bun release adds automated headless browser automation, whether Anthropic is using fear-based marketing, and major releases from Storybook and Docusaurus. From the community: why nominal typing deserves to be first-class, what to do about OSS vulnerabilities, and lessons from building a Rust runtime for TS. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (04:41) - News: Bun 1.3.12 Introduces WebView and Markdown Renderer (06:52) - News: Does Claude Mythos Spell Doom or Is It Just Marketing? (10:06) - News: Cursor 3 is Betting That the IDE Will Be Dead (15:20) - News: Ember.js is Using Vite by Default Now (15:52) - News: SvelteKit, Now with TS 6 Support (16:02) - News: VoidZero Experiments with Making Angular Compiler Faster (18:05) - News: Docusaurus 3.10 Prepares for v4 Release (20:12) - News: Storybook 10.3, React MCP and Type-safe CSF Factories (21:03) - Library Watch: better-translate, Type-safe Internationalization (22:25) - Library Watch: tiny-tts, Offline CPU Text-to-Speech in Node.js (24:06) - Library Watch: Pagyra, HTML to PDF in TypeScript (25:35) - Library Watch: PayKit, a TypeScript Billing Framework (26:54) - Library Watch: tsnapi, Snapshot Your TS Library Surface (27:43) - Highlight: What's New in JavaScript 2026 by Frontend Masters (28:51) - Highlight: Parse, Don't Valida…