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Yeah, I think GitLab in particular is a really interesting product that competes in a crucial space for devs. In addition, they've committed and stuck with monthly releases, with new features/improvements, so that's why it's posted so much. I love the monthly releases though.

I’ve submitted it a few times, just because I use it and like it, interested in discussion about it. I don’t know if I agree with the rule (a whole year?), but I’ll stop submitting it.

It's coming: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...

With threads, SIMD, GC, direct DOM access and more, tools like Emscripten and wasm_pack.....yes

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-futu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsYL4Z9sRec

Don't forget to follow that up with the second follow-up: http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/02/26/speed-without-wizardry....

Did not know about merge, will def check that out, thx!

Yeah, when I open up WebStorm's activity monitor and just start typing, the JIT compiler cranks away at 150% almost constantly.

Thx for the suggestions. I’ve tried their jre as well. I’ve disabled almost all the plugins, except vim.

Chronic issue for me. Consistently waiting on WebStorm lag to complete my typing/commands. May be the vim or other plugins I use, not sure. This is on 2 powerful machines. One Mac, one Windows.

Job didn't "require" it, I was the tech lead of a small startup, and chose Dart for client (WebGL-based game), server side, and supporting command-line tools. It's worked out great and the team loves Dart.

Latest news: 11 Aug 2017

I'll probably hold off on learning Rust deeply until they have async/await as keywords. Most of the programming I do involves async, and I currently do my day programming in Dart, which is an absolute joy to do async programming in. They had Future-based APIs from day one, so the whole ecosystem was built around futures starting out. They've had async/await as keywords for over 5 years now. It's so ergonomic it's painful to go back.

> Bezos Exposes Pecker

HuffPo headline

Highly recommend Spark! If you like the topic of Sleep, check out Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...

It's very high on my list of "We'd be better off if everyone read this" books.

An economy that strangles the one overarching thing it needs for its very success.....incentive.

Why is that you never hear about Sowell and his work? I consider myself fairly well read, but I've only discovered him the past few years. I wish I had found him earlier!

Wish everyone would read this book and Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.

Great read, thx.

> You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

It reduces size, but perhaps more importantly, reduces parsing time, which is crucial, particularly for slow mobile devices.

> We find that while WebAssembly runs faster than JavaScript (on average 1.3× faster across SPEC CPU)

> cost nothing

Nobody thinks it cost nothing, it's the draconian 30% they object to. Other app stores are offering similar services, with a much lower cut:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/announcing-the-epic-...

https://blog.discordapp.com/why-not-90-10-3761ebef4eab

It's coming: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...

> An interpacket gap of 96 bits (12 bytes) where the line is left idle. Presumably, this is to let the devices rest because they are tired.

I have two small children with a wife that works 40+ hours per week as well. I still find time to lift weights (at home) and play sports.

And it looks like you'll be able to enable it for your monitor even if it's not one of the expensive certified ones.

Ah, yes, I had read that previously. That's a big one and will be a game changer, including improving concurrency.

dart2js tool can be used in the browser, I believe this uses it: https://dartpad.dartlang.org/

It also has dart dev compiler which compiles much faster to more modern JavaScript: https://webdev.dartlang.org/tools/dartdevc

Thanks for the excellent write up and your work on Dart. After the long hiatus, I'm excited to see the language proposals in https://github.com/dart-lang/language, but I haven't seen anything in there regarding concurrency.

> Google should help develop WebAssembly

Google is heavily involved in WebAssembly planning and implementation in Chrome/V8. They have threading enabled chrome://flags