July 20th, 2026 ×
Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad
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CJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team's dismay), and Better Auth joins Vercel. Plus GPT-5.6 first impressions, Odin 1.0, Cloudflare's new Workers cache and drag-and-drop deploys, and the OpenCode 2 beta.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:21 CJ upgraded his homelab network
- 02:09 TypeScript 7 is 10x faster
- 11:19 Bun Rust rewrite drama
- 28:18 GPT 5.6 Impressions
- 40:58 Better Auth Acquired by Vercel
- 49:51 Grok Build CLI is stealing your code
- 56:00 Cloudflare Worker Cache and Drop
- 01:01:22 Check out CJ's latest video I Built an LLM from Scratch
- 01:03:06 Odin 1.0 Announced
- 01:05:33 OpenCode 2.0 Beta released
- 01:07:32 Winamp Skin Museum
- 01:11:08 CJ's new MP3 player
- 01:13:03 Scott's Robot Update
Sick Picks
- Scott: Reachy Mini
- CJ: Snowsky Echo Mini
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