I just wanted to take a few minutes to argue that the venerable terminal bell is a helpful and perhaps overlooked tool for anyone who does a lot of their...

Lovely Trees You've read lots of Web Components posts lately, I think this one is a little different. I'm thrilled that so many people are suddenly learning about, and falling...

Once upon a time, there was a movie called Once Upon a Forest.  I’ve never seen it.  In fact, the only reason I know it exists is because a few...

This year I spent some of my time fixing a few long standing issues in the Node.js vm API that were blocking people from upgrading away

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In the last post I wrote about how a new memory management

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Today, with Issue #522 I'm marking ten years of authoring LLVM Weekly, a newsletter summarising developments on projects under the LLVM umbrella (LLVM, Clang, MLIR, Flang, libcxx, compiler-rt, lld, LLDB,...

What's Good? I think this is a question worth asking, let me explain why… A few times a year, every developer advocate will ask developers about what developing features they're...

A remembered set is used by a garbage collector to identify graph edges between partitioned sub-spaces of a heap. The canonical example is in generational collection, where you allocate new...

In a recent dispatch, I explained the whole-program compilation strategy used in Whiffle and Hoot. Today’s note explores what a correct solution might look like.being explicitConsider a module that exports...

I find most descriptions of WebAssembly to be uninspiring: if you start with a phrase like “assembly-like language” or a “virtual machine”, we have already lost the plot. That’s not...