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2 articles First covered Jun 25, 2026, latest Jul 27, 2026

TypeScript compiled to native: Vercel's scriptc ships a 178KB binary with no JS engine

Vercel Labs open-sourced scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary. Its README claims 2.4ms startup. Hacker News is not convinced.

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Deno 2.9 nearly doubled its cold start and learned to read Bun's lockfiles

Deno 2.9 ships a 1.98x faster cold start, a native desktop-app builder, and direct reading of npm, pnpm, yarn, and Bun lockfiles. Here's where Deno sits now.