Why JavaScript Tooling 'Sucks' — “JavaScript tooling is just too hard to use, and it’s not your fault,” says Shawn. JavaScript’s history, ownership, and target use cases have all had a role to play.
Shawn Wang
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V8 Adding Support for Top Level await — This is only a link to a git commit but basically support for top level await is being added to V8 (and therefore a future version of Node). Node already supports this via the --experimental-repl-await option, but this should make it mainstream.
V8 Repo
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A Look at V8 v7.8 — Every six weeks we’re treated to a look at the newest release of the V8 JavaScript engine. v7.8 continues to improve performance (such as with faster object destructuring) and has some improvements for WebAssembly users too (there’s now a way to use V8 solely as a WebAssembly execution engine from C/C++).
Ingvar Stepanyan
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Quick bytes:
- The new executive director of the OpenJS Foundation is Robin Ginn, formerly an exec at Microsoft responsible for MS's engagement with the Node project.
- The CEO of npm, Inc. has resigned and they're now looking for a new one.
- Gatsby is now the richest JavaScript site generator in town as it has raised $15m in funding.
- Out of nowhere, an entertaining review of Douglas Crockford's 2018 How JavaScript Works book.
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▶ 15 Year Old JavaScript: Decoding Dreamweaver's MM_swapImage() — This is truly a blast from the past! Back in the day, the popular Dreamweaver Web design tool could create image rollovers for you (before CSS had :hover ) and it used JavaScript to do so. But what did this ancient JavaScript look like?
Wes Bos
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Let's Write a Basic 'Brainf--k' Interpreter — It’s not a compiler, as it says, but if you’re a beginner new to the ideas around interpreting a programming language yourself, you might enjoy this casual introduction.
Michele Riva
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gpu.js 2.0: GPU Accelerated JavaScript — Compiles JavaScript into shader language which can then be compiled and run on GPUs for significantly boosted performance in specific use cases (neural networks, raytracing..)
gpu.js Team
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OGL: A Minimal WebGL Framework — WebGL is not the easiest technology to use on its own, so libraries like Three.js are often used to make its functionality more accessible. This is a lighter weight attempt to keep you close to the metal without cutting your hands.
Nathan Gordon et al.
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