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Andy Wingo

Andy Wingo

Hacker.

North Carolina (USA)

I enjoy practicing aikido in my free time – and hacking, of course!

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Mar 31, 2026

wastrelly wabbits

Good day! Today (tonight), some notes on the last couple months of Wastrel, my ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler.Back in the beginning of February, I showed Wastrel running programs that use garbage...

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Mar 10, 2026

nominal types in webassembly

Before the managed data types extension to WebAssembly was incorporated in the standard, there was a huge debate about type equality. The end result is that if you have two...

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Feb 9, 2026

six thoughts on generating c

So I work in compilers, which means that I write programs that translate programs to programs. Sometimes you will want to target a language at a higher level than just,...

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Feb 6, 2026

ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel

Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the Wastrel ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!hello, worldThe quickest demo I have is that you should check out and...

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Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime

Wingo on Wasm

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The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

The Whippet Embeddable Garbage Collection Library

Toots

i was using an llm to poke holes in an idea and for real it suggested that i use the...