Via Wolf Weber

Originally shared by Tom Brydon

4.5 megabytes of data in 62,500 punched cards, USA, 1955

Non-obvious

const {0:a, 2:b, length:l} = [‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘baz’];

> a

‘foo’

> b

‘baz’

> l

3

Currently looking at ways of breaking large monolithic code bases into smaller packages without resorting to maintaining multiple github repos. It seems many large projects use the “monorepo” pattern and use tools such as Lerna https://lernajs.io/ or this one by Sencha which is confusingly named Mondorepo.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mondorepo

A lot of people seem to like Kotlin.

Now you can target the browser with WebAssembly.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlinnative-v0-4-released-objective-c-interop-webassembly-and-more/

This is the single biggest event in web development of the decade.

You can now run your own personal favourite shitty language directly in the browser if you can find a way to compile it to WebAssembly, the machine code of the web.

Expect to see a mountain of shitty Python apps, shitty Java apps and shitty Haskell apps all grappling with the world’s most shitty and difficult platform and API. Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a thousand schools of thought contend…

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/13/webassembly-in-browsers/