Benchmarking in Node, Modern DOM Typings, and Jev the Type-safe AI | News | Ep 82

News for the week of Sep 14, 2026: latest Node 26 includes experimental benchmark tests, a modern drop-in replacement for DOM typings, and we try to understand Jev, bruv. From the community: how GitHub rewrote Copilot's runtime in Rust, learn about ESM, and why Shopify ditched React Native (spoiler: agents).

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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(06:02) - Tooling: Node 26.9.0 Lets You Write Benchmarks with node:bench

(08:49) - Tooling: Jev, the Type-safe AI

(15:25) - Tooling: TypeScript 7 Works Around New Golang FMA Changes

(17:58) - Frameworks: GeaStack Compiles Typescript to Native Apps with C++

(20:00) - Frameworks: Ember 7.2, New Built-in Strict Resolver and ESM-only

(20:46) - Web Platform: Firefox 156, Can Now Open Automatically on macos