This is a Lisp system in JavaScript, the goal being to be able to run Lisp in a browser.

There’s a never-ending myth I see circulating on Twitter every few weeks: Vanilla JS doesn’t scale. This is complete nonsense. What does “scale” even mean? Is the implication is that vanilla JS literally cannot handle the load of large applications the …

The methods presented in this article were popularized by Dave Cheney, Rob Pike, and Márk Sági-Kazár. This article presents how to adapt these methods to JavaScript. Functional Options is a term used in the Go developer community and was created to e…

I built a new Datasette plugin called datasette-css-properties. It’s very, very weird—it adds a .css output extension to Datasette which outputs the result of a SQL query using CSS custom …

This article highlights some of the weird parts of JavaScript by contrasting the language with others such as HTML, CSS and Python.

Yet Another Javascript Do-Notation. Contribute to FbN/yado-js development by creating an account on GitHub.

Any compiler or transpiler is doing some form of program synthesis. But “proper” program synthesis usually means generation of high level programs from scratch, given only high level problem descriptions.

Some real programs are designed to produce output based solely on input. Ideally, compilers output the same binaries provided the same input files, for example. More frequently, however, programs require state, and user input together with the current sta…

This is post # 20 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…