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…)

A Deno 🦕 persistent, embeddable and optimized NoSQL database for JS & TS - denyncrawford/dndb... (more…)

First of all; look at all those abbreviations. I did it. Yay.

I thought I knew all the ways to call functions without parentheses: alert`1337` throw onerror=alert,1337 Function`x${'alert\x281337\x29'}x``` 'alert\x281337\x29'instanceof{[Symbol['hasInstance']]:eva... (more…)

Learn about some of the ways in which JavaScript works internally with a basic primer on the thread of execution. (more…)