Zod v4.5 adds schema compilation (3-9x faster validation)

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Serious question: how widespread and actually used in production is Zod? Honestly, it made things worse for me. JavaScript isn’t a statistical typed language and TypeScript already is something, where due to compiler issues I just use “any”. Zod has its conventions and JavaScript ain’t Java. So Zod is also hard to read and debug. It is type conversion to type conversion - bloat, not JavaScript. Even Pydantic looks tamed compared to Zod. So how do you use it? Which conventions? Only for validation at certain steps? APIs? I stopped using TanStack because it got to meta for me and AI as well. Tests are needed anyway, I rely on TypeScript only now.