JavaScript: The First 20 Years  by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich Our HOPL paper is done and submitted to the ACM for June 2020 publication in the PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages)  and presentation at the HOPL 4 conference when... (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…)

Introduction to a collection useful JavaScript code... (more…)

I recently received this kind message on LinkedIn from the president of a Canadian cybercrime technology company: (more…)

Code coverage is a software-testing metric that determines how many lines of code have successfully validated under a test suite, and is usually measured with specialized tools like Codecov. These ... (more…)