high speed zlib port to javascript, works in browser & node.js - nodeca/pako... (more…)

Recently, I was assigned a task of creating a new JS library to replace the obsolete one that's been released for almost 8 years. This is a quite intruiging task because I'm also permitted to try everything new to make this project much more robust. (more…)

Is JavaScript a functional programming language? This question has long been a topic of great debate within our community. Given that JavaScript’s author was recruited to do “Scheme in the browser,” one could argue that JavaScript was designed to be...

Lumen is a very small, self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript. It provides a flexible compilation environment with an extensible reader, macros, and extensible special forms, but otherwise attempts to match the target runtime environment as closely as po... (more…)

This website is assembled with JavaScript, mainly because that's the easiest way to use the excellent KaTeX. I'm using Metalsmith to write the blog, which has been very pleasant, but every so often the essential madness of JS shines through. (more…)