A slightly earlier draft of this post was a response to a question on the intfiction.org forums. It's been moved here because it might be interesting outside of that context. Other posts in this... (more…)

Say you have a dictionary that you want to both copy and update. In JavaScript, this is a common pattern that gets its own syntax, called the object spread operator: const oldObject = { hello: 'world', foo: 'bar' } const newObject = { ...oldObject, foo: '... (more…)

Brandon Rhodes Why does "top" show that your Python process uses 110 MB of virtual memory but has a resident set size of 9 MB? Does it consume more memory to... (more…)

Why ask this question?It's no secret that I want a Python implementation for WebAssembly. It would not only get Python into the browser, but with the fact that both iOS and Android support running JavaScript as part of an app it would also get Python on t... (more…)

Calling Python functions from the Ruby language. Contribute to mrkn/pycall.rb development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)