Today, I find myself migrating from Digital Ocean to Linode (now Akamai Cloud but I’m never gonna really call it that) because, among other things, Digital Ocean recently donated $3 million USD to Omarchy , a slop distro for fascists. Raising money for free and open source software development is hard so it’s pretty…
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Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December. It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed memory languages to take advantage of the advanced…