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"Null" is such a great name for a cat.

All iterable objects (Arrays, Strings, TypedArrays, Maps, and Sets) come with the same set of iterator-creating methods (keys, values, entries).

The ES6 spec draft is in its final stages of being revised. At this point there shouldn't be any substantial developer-facing changes except to a few final things that are being ir…

At one point we made the flow for connecting to Facebook pretty ambiguous, where "Skip" meant yes and "Continue" meant no. Wow wow wow. That is beyond ambiguous into downright misl…

It does make me wonder, what things have I said about somebody's creation and then have them come along and see it I passingly wrote some disparaging remarks in a github issue abou…

I think he meant there's no difference between being unemployed and just starting as 1099, since there's basically no taxes paid to show you're making any income for a while.

Michael Crichton had this shit working for Congo with apes like two decades ago. This is nothing! hacker news dismiss w/ flourish

At this point, developer tools are essentially a required feature for a browser. All else aside, there's no way to debug a bug that's specific to a single browser without tools int…

const tail = ([, ...xs]) => xs;

Also Douglas Crockford worked at Yahoo.

Every JavaScript engine has its own implementation of the JS standard library. V8's, for example, is almost entirely implemented in JS itself, while SpiderMonkey's is implemented m…

All of these things are coming as part of the next version of JavaScript, ES6. Proxy is available in Firefox and Chrome behind a flag. Function.prototype.@@create/@@hasInstance is …

Also Tachyon is a full JS engine built in JS. It's incomplete but has the ability self-host itself and JIT compile machine code (all written in JS), so it gets bonus points to offs…

Well RPython is just that: a restricted subset of Python (hence the name). Similarly, asm.js is a (small) subset of ECMAScript targeted at compile-to-js code generators. It's just …

You need to do things like not dispatch to valueOf and toString for coercion. You basically just need to get rid of dynamic coercion dispatch, and do what you said (annotate types)…

Caja and Narcissus are definitely comparable parallels, but Continuum is unique in that it fully implements the ECMAScript object model, runtime, and standard library (except for a…

I had considered this, but it would also require the other end of it. RPython is basically compiled to C which is compiled to machine code. The ultimate output format for this need…

Most useful features in CoffeeScript have been co-opted by ES6 and its proliferation will put pressure on CS to innovate some new features or become much less relevant. The "ideal"…

The actual code generator I haven't published because it was kind of a pile of crap. I created bindings to libclang as well here but haven't finished rewriting a more generalized c…

This is the beginnings of a wrapper around various windowing Apis to create a Window class https://github.com/Benvie/node-Windows/blob/master/Window.js This is the beginnings of a …