Javascript on Rhizomes

What Does the Event Loop Sound Like?

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:50:42 +0000

A musical journey inside Node internals

Node’s Libuv’s logo over a Max for Live Connection Kit

There’s a notion that coding and debugging are purely intellectual tasks. Car mechanics can determine engine issues by listening to the engine, scrutinizing its starting sound and reverberations like a physician might with their stethoscope. Meanwhile, developers are stuck with the Terminal Bell — ASCII code 7 — a relic from electronic typewriters. There’s much more than meets the eye.

How I Switched from TypeScript to ReScript

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:12:20 +0000

A glimpse into a more civilized (yet challenging) tool in the JavaScript ecosystem

Art for ReScript Blog, credit to Bettina Steinbrecher

This is not evangelism of ReScript or a one-to-one comparison with TypeScript. I love TypeScript. I decided to rewrite a small TypeScript+React+Jest side project into ReScript.

ReScript is not new. In a way it’s as old as JavaScript itself. ReScript is a rebranding of ReasonML (Facebook) and BuckleScript (Bloomberg), which wrap OCaml on both ends. The former is an interface of the OCaml syntax, while the latter makes sure to compile the AST into JavaScript. ReasonML was created by Jordan Walke, the creator of React. ReasonML still exists as a parallel project to ReScript, with a slightly different syntax and mission.

It's Time You Learn About Monads

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:55:34 +0000

You know what an Object is, why not learn about the Monad?

celebrate (seed 2568290493) by @noisemakerbot, Algorithmical/Generative artwork

Monads, with a name that originated in metaphysics and its roots in pure mathematics, is a concept that might seem esoteric at first. The “aha!” moment that builds our intuition for it is a Satori that many developers trying to understand functional programming want to reach, finally consummating in a blog post such as this one. In the book What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell, Stephen Diehl suggest an Eightfold Path, of which the first two are: