716: JS Perf Wins & New Node.js Features with Yagiz Nizipli

Yagiz Nizipli talks about his involvement with Node.js, implementing .env, how he finds areas to improve in performance, the happy path vs the hot path, and new features coming to Node.js.
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:01 Introducing Yagiz Nizipli
02:21 What is your involvement in Node.js?
03:27 Implementing .env
07:03 Why was 20,000 lines of C required?
11:00 How do you begin to find performance issues?
15:17 How do you measure improvements?
26:27 The happy path vs the hot path
27:36 Is Rspack ready for prime time?
RSpack

28:47 Bundle Size VS runtime perf? Whats more important?
30:51 What’s it like working on a large project like Node?
38:26 Will Node ever get TypeScript support?
40:22 What are loaders?
44:24 Node.js is getting a config file?
51:37 Sick Picks
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