Allen Wirfs-Brock
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Dreaming the future of software; Project Editor ECMAScript 2015;
Reformed Smalltalker
JavaScript historian https://t.co/TLCrI97REE…
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Another post in my series on architecture as a metaphor for software development. Inspired by staring at the ceiling in Centre Pompidou after NewCrafts @[email protected] tomasp.net/blog/2023/pomp…
The 2023 edition of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) standards have been released and again this year we used pagedjs to produce PDFs from HTML.
Paged.js 0.4.1 was more robust than 0.3.5 that we used last year. ❤️❤️
The PDFs are at
ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl…
ecma-international.org/wp-content/upl…
Few understand this: 'JavaScript is an extraordinarily good language. ... they think it's a toy language, but in fact, it's probably one of the best languages out there. The other thing is, it's had billions of dollars of investment to make it very, very, very fast' - David A Smith
Automerge 2.0 is here! Orders of magnitude faster, vastly better memory use, a compact binary format, a built-in synchronization engine, and available in both Rust and JavaScript. Best of all? Thanks to sponsors, Alex Good works full-time on improving it. automerge.org/blog/automerge…
Jens Eckels Eclipse Foundation Our read is that the European Cyber Resiliency Act as currently drafted will legally turn open source foundations into suppliers, with the same legal obligations as companies. The unintended consequences of that are exhausting to consider.
eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/01/15/eur…
Stephen Kell @[email protected] The other thing: augmenting the 'natural' world to be more hospitable and empowering for humans. Most of us already live in an a world modified by ambient digital enhancements (some good/some evil). A world largely ignored by mainstream CS.