PL folks — For @ohmjs.org, I’m looking at how to support fully incremental pipelines (eg parsing → codegen, all incremental). I know about Salsa (github.com/salsa-rs/salsa); what else should I be looking at?

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

tfw neovim (with lazyvim) has more lag than zed.

Finally got around to reading Build Systems à la Carte (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...), it's really great (like everyone says). I love papers like this, that take a well-known, messy, unloved area and propose a useful organizing principle for it.

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12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!

Don't make me tap the sign

cli agentic coding tools like opencode are great at "fuzzy grep". Clone a repo and ask the agent to tell you where/how/if something is done.

Python needs its own TypeScript-style superset. The current `Annotated[Optional[Foo], Field(...)]` is getting out of control: - It's more verbose than Java - It's slower - The "type system" demands more and gives you back less than a true static type system - The tooling is a mess

The WebAssembly 3.0 spec is complete! webassembly.org/news/2025-09... This includes major features like GC, 64-bit memories, exceptions, and tail calls.

the gmail border radius team was hired by apple?

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these: bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project... PS: if you got it you are an old nerd

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PL friends — A reader of @wasmgroundup.com asked: "Is there a book that can help with reading the mathematical notation in the web assembly core spec?" The spec itself suggests TAPL, but I'm curious if anyone has any other suggestions.

Nice use of Wasm — bundling lightweight WebAssembly decoders with the data. AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets → gienieczko.com/anyblox-paper /ht Jamie Brandon (www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0054/)

Happy first day writing only 10% of the code for those who celebrate. www.reddit.com/r/singularit...

(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog) we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is blog.val.town/vt-cli

Designing syntax is hard! Some good examples here of what makes language design so tricky.

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#Scala.js 1.20.1 is released! It features a number of performance improvements, both for the JavaScript and WebAssembly backends. www.scala-js.org/news/2025/09...

Announcement of #WebAssembly support in Swift 6.2 at #WWDC 2025 was only a small step in our journey. Just in the last few months numerous improvements landed in the toolchain and libraries that I attempted to summarize here: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-...

For some months, I've been using Gemini instead of ChatGPT for "human stuff"; this week, I'm using Grok Fast 1 instead of Claude 4 Sonnet (because it's free on OpenCode). It's interesting that I'm not using OpenAI or Anthropic and don't feel I'm missing anything.

You can feel the AGI when OpenAI sends you to split the audio by yourself with a third-party library and tells you not to split the audio mid-sentence but doesn't tell you how.

🎙 New Episode of Igalia Chats: Yeah, but for what? Wingo on Wasm @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com chat with @wingolog.org about Web Assembly www.igalia.com/chats/wingo-...

Many of our friends in North America are back to school already, but we've still got two more weeks of holidays over here. Which means: it's not too late to snag a copy of the book in our summer sale!

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It’s a computational notebook, where all cells are running all the time. Fascinatingly, the UI is the code, adorned with small widgets. I think legibility could be improved for other users, but this points to possibilities in other domains.

1/ Super-excited to release the first complete rewrite to the Pyret home page in 10 years, corresponding to major language improvements! So many cool new things, let me give you a brief tour: ↵ pyret.org

I propose the SERIOUS stack (Super Efficient Reliable Infrastructure Operating Under Stress): - Analytics: DuckDB and MotherDuck - Critical systems: CockroachDB and Pony - Testing: Cucumber, Chai, and Mocha - Automation: Vagrant and Puppet

Exception handling support has just been merged in Wasmtime. Great news for @kotlinlang.org and @graalvm.org compiling to #Wasm for server-side (and fullstack) use cases! github.com/bytecodealli...

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Lately I’ve been learning more about WebAssembly fundamentals by reading this fantastic book: wasmgroundup.com . It’s really well written and focuses on how WebAssembly is written by teaching you to write a compiler for it. Which is honestly pretty genius.

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Notion's new offline support is based on our rich text CRDT research x.com/ivanhzhao/st...

Pitch: teenage engineering but for developer prototyping tools

what's the software equivalent of a breadboard?

for explorations and small prototypes this is all I ever use in a unit test library, yet setting one up that works both in the terminal and the browser is a PITA, creating a gist for my future self. gist.github.com/marianoguerr...

docs.python.org/3/library/sy... ftw :)

bash's `set -x` for all programming languages

It's time for ES JSON: a version of JSON with modern JavaScript features. This should be a standard, not just another library.

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Collapsing into a black hole is the great filter of paperclip maximizing AIs.

I just gave Claude a Python file and asked it to generate code that uses the ast module to generate and print the original code, and it did. Then, I used componentize-py to generate a WebAssembly component from a Python implementation. 1/3

@julien.deniau.me‬ hi! I was playing with bundling immutable and noticed there are some pragma annotations, which tool/step handles those pragmas?

Really enjoyed "Live Programming in Hostile Territory" by @chrisshank.com and @orionreed.com: folkjs.org/live-2025/ They are doing some great stuff with @folkjs.org, y'all should check it out.

The summer holidays just started here in southern Germany. So, it's time for a ☀️ SUMMER SALE ☀️ — Use the code SUMMER25 for a 25% discount on the book until Sept 15: wasmgroundup.com

The compressed emoji hype cycle: 🤓-stage: People that care. Academia or at home on weekends 🤯-stage: Grifters notice and try to make money out of it. On social media 🛠️-stage: Real uses and limitations found, grifters move to the next one, it's just a tool now. At work