WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

Posted by lonelyroom-eklaghor - 122 votes and 20 comments

: It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us

Explore this post and more from the replit community

Our legal battle over Oracle's claim on the word "JavaScript" is entering the discovery phase. Here's how you can help.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

From the Zed Blog: Stories from the open source contributors who became core team members.

Microsoft has urged its H-1B and H-4 visa employees to promptly return to the United States before the September 21 deadline. This follows President Trump's announcement of a $100,000 annual fee on the H-1B visa program. The company has also advised its H…

Trump imposes a $100K annual fee on H-1B visas, a move that makes U.S. developers cheaper to hire than foreign workers for the first time in decades.

US President Donald Trump, in his latest efforts to crack down on immigration, signed a proclamation imposing a $100,000 (over Rs 88 lakh) fee on H-1B visa applicants.

US President Donald Trump, in his latest efforts to crack down on immigration, signed…

Introduction

Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me. And I think it’s making me worse at the thing I’ve loved doing for twelve years.I can cl...

Posted by alefore - 106 votes and 31 comments

I’ve just shipped StringZilla v4, the first CUDA-capable release of my SIMD-first string processing library.
Which in English means that it is now fast not only on CPUs, but also on GPUs!

I’ve wanted to add ROCm-acceleration for AMD GPUs 🤦‍♂️
I’ve wanted…

Posted by hexaredecimal - 135 votes and 127 comments

To my great surprise, one of the biggest current users of my StringZilla library in the Python ecosystem is one of the world’s most widely used Image Augmentation libraries - Albumentations with over 100 million downloads on PyPI, growing by 5 million every…

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said he's been vibe coding and showing the results to his company's engineers.

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work…

Posted by ewaldbenes - 155 votes and 142 comments

Dig in to the original goals of the Postgres academic project at UC Berkeley and how they shaped the Postgres we use today.