764: Biome JS with Emanuele Stoppa

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Join Scott and Wes as they delve into the fascinating realm of Biome.JS alongside Emanuele Stoppa, the mastermind behind it all. Why is it written in Rust? Why are other tools so slow? Could Biome be the ultimate successor to ESLint or Prettier? Grab a seat at the table and find out! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:10 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:49 Who is Emanuele Stoppa and what is Biome? 03:18 What happened to Rome? 05:49 Who’s paying for Biome to be developed? 07:28 How many people are working on Biome? 09:24 Why do we even need Biome? 11:38 Why are other tools so slow? 12:55 Cost of compute. 14:01 The cache management. 14:30 Why was the decision made to move to Rust? 16:35 The bigger the company, the pricier the compute. 19:49 How to get started with Biome. 23:08 Will Biome offer more features than Prettier? 24:12 Language support. 26:02 A language parser for every language? 27:45 Will plugins need to be written in Rust? GritQL GitHub. 31:25 Ezno, TypeScript Compiler. 33:13 Will we ever see a new TypeScript type-checker? 35:38 What are your thoughts on the types proposal? Proposal Type Annotations. 38:03 What does your average day look like? 41:10 What is your role at Astro? 41:46 What other languages do you know? 43:22 Biome VCS. 45:14 GitHub action setup. 47:04 Supper Club Questions. 47:09 What text editor, theme and font are you using? 48:26 What do you do to stay up to date? 48:54 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Emanuele: Ripley IMDB, Netflix. Shameless Plugs Emanuele: Astro, BiomeJS. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. Today we have a show for you on B biome. We have Emma Stapa on who's the
0:06.4	creator of B biome and we're going to talk all about it.
0:10.3	And if you want to see all of the errors in your application, you'll want to check out Central. it's months for free, Century is just a really incredible tool for not only tracking your performance,
0:24.8	making sure your application has no bugs, but even just seeing what goes wrong when something
0:29.6	goes wrong because things go wrong all the time when we're coding and you don't want a production
0:34.4	application out there that well you have no visibility into in case something is
0:38.9	blowing up and you might not even know it so head on a decentry dot I.
0:42.3	O for such syntax again we've been using this tool for a long time and it
0:46.3	totally rules all right Wes.
0:49.7	biome is a one-stop shop tool chain format or linter maybe even more at some point for your
0:58.0	TypeScript JavaScript JS JS maybe HTML projects at some point.
1:04.4	It's built in Rust.
1:05.4	It aims to create like a wicked fast alternative
1:07.7	to tools like prettier, ES lint,
1:10.6	while having like a simple configuration, one tool kind of do it all
1:14.4	actionable error message all kinds of really neat stuff so pretty excited about
1:18.6	this we're gonna talk to Emma today he's the project lead and talk about where biome came from it was
1:26.2	Rome at one point now it's biome as well as like what the the end game is on it so
1:31.6	welcome thanks so much for coming on.
1:33.2	Thank you for having me. Yeah, yeah this is exciting. We talked about we had a whole
1:37.4	show on like like next-gen JavaScript tooling. We were we talked about the
1:41.7	sort of all the things in this space and
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