Ivan Enderlin @hywan@fosstodon.org
PhD Computer Scientist/Hacker, main projects: Hoa, Tagua VM, atoum, Atlasr. Web & Rust lover. Current Wasmer; ex Automattic, Liip, fruux, Mozilla.
Joined Aug 2018
Wasmer 0.5 has been released, https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/releases/tag/0.5.0.
• More stable version of WASI
• Ships with wapm 0.3 (with package signing and contracts)
• Emscripten improvements, now able to run python and openssl!
• Context trampoline for exported functions
• & more!
wasm-pdf, https://github.com/jussiniinikoski/wasm-pdf.
Generate PDF files with JavaScript and Wasm.
CSS Grid Level 2, subgrid is coming to Firefox, https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/06/css-grid-level-2-subgrid-is-coming-to-firefox/.
j4rs, i.e. Java for Rust, allows effortless calls to Java code from Rust, https://astonbitecode.github.io/blog/post/j4rs_0.6.0/.
Looks neat. A project to follow.
Stabilize support for Profile-guided Optimization (PGO) in Rust, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61268.
In a nutshell: It collects practical data at runtime to guide optimizations in the compiler. A truly performance booster! Can't wait to test it in stable Rust!
Pathfinder: a first look at the best fonts and vector graphics on VR/AR, https://blog.mozvr.com/pathfinder-a-first-look/.
Pathfinder is a fast, practical GPU rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics. It changes everything when it comes to VR/AR. The article explains why.
bzip2 in Rust, Basic infrastructure and CRC32 computation, https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-basic-infra.html.
bzip2 is very likely to be rewritten in Rust. The article explains the strategy, how it has started etc.
🐹🕸️ Wasmer, the Go library, https://github.com/wasmerio/go-ext-wasm/, now supports imported function 🎉: WebAssembly can call a function implemented in Go!
Example with a logger in the following screenshots.
Zsh is the default shell in the next macOS release, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050.
Today I discovered the `Reflect` API in JavaScript, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Reflect.
🐹🕸️ I'm super excited to announce the Fastest WebAssembly Runtime for Go: wasmer, https://medium.com/wasmer/announcing-the-fastest-webassembly-runtime-for-go-wasmer-19832d77c050 🎉
https://github.com/wasmerio/go-ext-wasm is a Go library to execute WebAssembly binaries.
Have fun!
DeleteFB, https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB
A Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts.
It's never too late to leave Facebook. Leave it, now.
grcov, https://github.com/mozilla/grcov
Rust tool to collect and aggregate code coverage data for multiple source files.
PixelFed, https://pixelfed.org/
A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation.
Source code: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
It looks really promising! Can't wait to test it for real :-).
Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users, https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3.
@discordapp is using @rustlang to improve the performance of their Member List feature.
tl;dr result: From 500µs with Sorted List (Elixir) to 0.61µs with StoredSet (Elixir+Rust).
Rustler, https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler.
Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang Native Implemented Functions (NIF).
Create Interactive .NET Documentation with Try .NET, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/creating-interactive-net-documentation/.
Try .NET now uses WebAssembly for a more interactive experience.
Source code of Try .NET is also now open source, https://github.com/dotnet/try.
Tokamak, https://github.com/MaxDesiatov/Tokamak
A React-like framework for native UI written in pure Swift.
Faster smarter JavaScript debugging in Firefox DevTools, https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/faster-smarter-javascript-debugging-in-firefox/.
• Starts 30% faster
• Fixed source maps directly in Babel, Vue.js, Regenerator…
• Breakpoints per statement, not per line!
• Logpoints 😍
• Workers support
• and more!
I officially stop maintaining a11ym (The A11y Machine), https://github.com/liip/TheA11yMachine
@bpeab@twitter is the new maintainer of the project! Wish him fun!
Thanks for all the fish 🐟🐠🐡!
PhD Computer Scientist/Hacker, main projects: Hoa, Tagua VM, atoum, Atlasr. Web & Rust lover. Current Wasmer; ex Automattic, Liip, fruux, Mozilla.
Joined Aug 2018
