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number: 969
title: This guy is nuts (TypeScript Doom)
date: 1768215600000
url: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FSI8241835215.mp3
youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cXD1FGvRdA
guest:
name: Dimitri Metropolis
github: dimitropoulos
of: Cloudflare
url: https://www.cloudflare.com/
social: https://www.youtube.com/@MichiganTypeScript
---

Scott and Wes sit down with Dimitri Metropolis to explore the wild edges of TypeScript—from running Doom in the type system to building tools like Typeslayer. They dig into Turing-complete types, performance limits, and what the future might hold for TypeScript and programming languages as a whole.

### Show Notes

* **[00:00](#t=00:00)** Welcome to Syntax!
* **[00:27](#t=00:27)** Dimitri Metropolis Introduction
* **[01:29](#t=01:29)** What is [Doom in TypeScript?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA)
* **[03:10](#t=03:10)** TypeScript Types and Turing Completeness
* **[04:06](#t=04:06)** Project Overview and Challenges
* **[04:57](#t=04:57)** ASCII Art and Visual Representation
* **[06:50](#t=06:50)** Performance Issues with TypeScript
* **[09:27](#t=09:27)** Brought to you by Sentry.io
* **[09:51](#t=09:51)** [Typeslayer Tool](https://www.npmjs.com/package/typeslayer) Introduction
* **[16:19](#t=16:19)** Building in Tauri
* **[20:54](#t=20:54)** Challenges around packaging
* **[24:03](#t=24:03)** Future of TypeScript and AI
* **[27:40](#t=27:40)** Is the Go-based compiler significantly faster?
* [TSperf](https://tsperf.dev/)
* **[30:23](#t=30:23)** Should there be something to follow Typescript?
* **[36:27](#t=36:27)** Staying up to date with WASM.
* **[37:08](#t=37:08)** [SquiggleConf](https://www.youtube.com/@SquiggleConf) Overview
* **[38:26](#t=38:26)** Hosting a conference
* **[40:45](#t=40:45)** What are your thoughts on [Zig](https://ziglang.org/)?
* **[45:07](#t=45:07)** Vibe coding as an end goal
* **[50:01](#t=50:01)** Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

### Sick Picks

- Dimitri: [pullfrog](https://pullfrog.com/)

### Shameless Plugs

- Dimitri: [Michigan TypeScript on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@MichiganTypeScript)

### Hit us up on Socials!

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