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Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open source ecosystem through hands on projects and mentorship. This year, two projects successfully reached completion, tackling two areas of the ecosystem:…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The Vapor web framework recently turned ten and celebrated with Vapor Week! We’ve invited one of the authors of Vapor as this month’s guest contributor: Hi, I’m Tim from the Vapor Core Team! 10…
Alex Rickabaugh & Mark Techson [Alex] I joined the Angular team in 2015, around the original Angular 2.0 release. One of my first tasks was to convert source code from JavaScript into a relatively new (at the time) language from Microsoft, known as TypeScript . TypeScript would go on to become both an industry…
Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform agnostic SIMD API
DuckDB Wasm can open a persistent database file in the browser's Origin Private File System (OPFS). This post shows how, and when data reaches disk.
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am the creator of the elementary swift project, a collection of packages…
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more.& 160; Read on for the details, and check the release notes for the full list of changes and bug fixes.…
Safari Technology Preview Release 250 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.
Vite 8.1 is out! June 23, 2026 Vite 8 was released in March with a single unified bundler powered by Rolldown , opening the door to further improvements. It is now seeing 41.6 million weekly downloads, almost reaching the total downloads of Vite 7. Alongside resolving upgrade regressions, we've been working on new…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups and conferences bring Swift developers together, and some even…
Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through WebAssembly, delivering the exact same ink rendering and note…
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the 2025 WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of […] The…
This release includes for running package binaries, more granular permissions, source phase imports, faster type checking with , native source maps, , and much more.
In this blog post, we explain two optimizations for WebAssembly that we recently implemented in V8 and that shipped with Google Chrome M137, namely speculative call indirect inlining and deoptimization support for WebAssembly. In combination, they allow us to generate better machine code by making assumptions based…
The JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API allows WebAssembly applications that were written assuming synchronous access to external functionality to operate smoothly in an environment where the functionality is actually asynchronous . This note outlines what the core capabilities of the JSPI API are, how to…
WebAssembly’s JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API has a new API, available in Chrome release M126. We talk about what has changed, how to use it with Emscripten, and what is the roadmap for JSPI. JSPI is an API that allows WebAssembly applications that use sequential APIs to access Web APIs that are…
WebAssembly’s JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API is entering an origin trial, with Chrome release M123. What that means is that you can test whether you and your users can benefit from this new API. JSPI is an API that allows so called sequential code – that has been compiled to WebAssembly – to access Web…
