I was hired in December 2014 as the sixth engineer at Shyp. Shyp runs Node.js on the server. It's been a pretty frustrating journey, and I wanted to share some of the experiences we've had. There are no hot takes about the learning curve, or "why are t... (more…)

Common Lisp to JavaScript compiler. Contribute to cxxxr/valtan development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Prior Art V8 implements "idle tasks" which can be accessed through its C++ API. Idle tasks are optional (non-urgent) GC work that will run eventually. Blink uses idle tasks to schedule work between frames, after JavaScript execution is finished. https://... (more…)

Technology created in the name of economy can also be used for Performance... (more…)

Proxies enable us to intercept and customize operations performed on objects (such as getting properties). They are a metaprogramming feature. (more…)