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I’ve moved my S&P 500 investments to the Equal Weight index to reduce my exposure to AI. Quite aside from SpaceX, I think the large-cap tech companies are making some uncomfortably…

They're closed for sign-ups, so no way to view their feed :( But happy to follow those accounts.

I definitely feel this. We're a far cry from the early days of Facebook where you could just post your thoughts and feelings and real people you'd know and care about would come an…

The thing about Hacker News is that it's a real fight for life to get any engagement. Just showing the humble project you're working on doesn't cut it. You need to time your submis…

I've been using Twitter / X for a good decade now, and while I've found it's a great place to connect with native app dev communities (I'm well connected with the React Native scen…

Oh, drat. Just about to go to bed now, but I’ll sort that out tomorrow. Thanks!

I've learned a lot over 10 years as a software engineer and thought it was about time I had a place to write up all this hard-earned knowledge. So I created a docs site, for myself…

I'm keeping my eye on Void0, yeah! If anyone can live up to such promises, it'll be them. They'll have a tough job getting sticky ecosystems like React Native to adopt, but hope to…

Thank you for the kind words! Glad to get this one out of the way so that I can do some less ambitious articles for a change. But hope to make them good in their own way, too!

Eh, writing is hard!

A very good thought! Deno and Bun have this formidable funding for sure, but Node.js is still innovating. Things like type-stripping and require(esm) come to mind. I think as long …

Could be to draw upon the existing JavaScript ecosystem, or could just be because JavaScript is the language the dev knows best! I feel really nerfed when I have to move from JavaS…

Thank you! I'd tend to default to Expo if building a mobile app in JavaScript these days, but Capacitor, Tauri, and NativeScript are all good options too.

Thank you very much, really appreciate it! There's a respectable article on engines ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_engines ), but indeed, no article on runtimes…

Very cool, though when I was qualifying the scope for "the last decade", I was doing it by creation date rather than usage date, so I think I get a pass on this one!

I've heard nothing but high praise for GraalJS, yeah. I wonder whether it'd make any sense inside mobile apps – not due to any feature in mind, but simply out of interest because t…

> Did you consider things like JScript.NET? jsc.exe still comes with every Windows installation, and JScript still runs on IIS server (I have built a few things with it). I've not …

No idea! The only benchmarks I'm aware of for QuickJS are against other JavaScript engines ( https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html ). That said, one thing I've heard a lot from Na…

The other reploies seem to have answered it! I've never understood why iOS allows JIT inside WKWebView yet not inside bare JavaScriptCore. Maybe because WKWebView runs in its own s…

I totally agree that the lack of JIT has been a huge waste of human resources. NativeScript and React Native have had to move so many mountains to make viable software despite it.

Oh right, thanks for the insight. Wondering how to rephrase it. Did AWS at least create it, or fund it? rquickjs looks like a good one to include in the article. I've just edited i…

I'm not familiar with the term "context tracking", and management of the event loop is a bit lower level than I normally go, but I do know several runtimes use libuv ( https://libu…

> I thought over the last decade we let other languages into the browser Not so much! Rhino was an effort to rewrite Netscape Navigator in Java, and I expect that if that rewrite h…

Thank you! It did cross my mind. I've archived a couple of the hard-won links in there that I had a feeling at great risk of rotting. But thankfully a lot of the links are to GitHu…