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A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
Note : This post stirred up some interesting discussions on HackerNews and Lobste.rs .
There are two types of programming languages: garbage-collected programming languages and programming languages that require manual memory management. With to WebAssembly Garbage Collection, garbage-collected languages can be ported to WebAssembly.
Tinkering with relay-based logic just for the fun of it.
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
If we go through the list of C++23 features, we can stumble upon the notion of garbage collection twice. Once among the language and once among the library features. Both entries refer to the same paper (P2186R2): garbage collection (GC in short) support is getting removed from C++. Just to make it clear, it’s not…
I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations…
Order by in aggregates, better string concatenation, and thorough date formatting.
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word…
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…
In the past week I went to add Python 3.12 support to my zstandard Python package. A few hours into the unexpected yak shave / rat hole, I decided to start chronicling my experience so that I may share it with the broader Python community. My hope is that by sharing my (unfortunately painful) end-user experience that…
Update: Ingress2Gateway v1.0 is now available! Today we are releasing ingress2gateway, a tool that can help you migrate from Ingress to Gateway API. Gateway API is just weeks away from graduating to GA, if you haven't upgraded yet, now's the time to think about it! BackgroundIn the ever-evolving world of Kubernetes…
Hacking together bits of electronics to route audio
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
> Follow up the WinterJS series reading about the recent production-ready WinterJS 1.0 release [here](<https://wasmer.io/posts/winterjs-v1>). Today we ...
Shadow is a new novel browser engine written in JS!
Where you store your application data has enormous impacts on your entire application. There are implications on the entire stack based on what you decide to...
Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams.
Demystify shaders with this beginner-friendly guide. Explore fragment shaders, signed distance functions, and metaballs through interactive code examples. Learn how to create beautiful blob animations and effects using just a few lines of code.
Gleam is a Type-Safe programming language that transpiles to Erlang And javascript . , so you can run its code on the BEAM. I’ve slept on Gleam for a while because its syntax. It was too much Rust and not enough Elixir for me.
Since pg_cron 1.5, you can easily schedule jobs that run every 1-59 seconds. And pg_cron 1.6 added support for Postgres 16. This blog post walks you through the benefits of second granularity jobs with the pg_cron open source extension to Postgres.
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.
