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Typesetting on the Web just got more beautiful! Support for `text-wrap: pretty` has landed in Safari Technology Preview 216. @jensimmons.bsky.social's post on the WebKit blog explains how this improves typography in multiple ways: no more ragged edges, poor hyphenation, or short last lines.

I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216. It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines. webkit.org/blog/16547/b...

It currently takes unusually long to build the new TypeScript compiler codebase (written in Go). Mere hours after this issue was reported, @thepudds.bsky.social put up a fix that speeds up compilation by ~5x, reducing the build time from ~91s to ~17s. This is so cool to see! Open source FTW.

Amazing news for the #TypeScript ecosystem! The 10x speedup will be a game changer for developer experience — can’t wait to see this land.

WinterCG is dead, long live WinterTC, now Ecma TC55! ecma-international.org/news/collabo...

React v19 is now stable! react.dev/blog/2024/12...

Astro 5.0 is here. Content layer, server islands, simplified prerendering, type-safe env, @vite.dev v6. All stable. Go see what you can do 👇 astro.build/blog/astro-5/

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