Ian Grunert

Every JIT tier is now enabled on the Windows port of JavaScriptCore. Big thanks to Yusuke Suzuki who had the great idea of using sysv_abi in the first place, and reviewed the bulk of this work. Read more about it here:

https://iangrunert.com/2024/10/07/every-jit-tier-enabled-jsc-windows.html

Wrote a post about enabling WebAssembly on the Windows port for WebKit.

On the first episode of Off The Main Thread, @jaffathecake@mastodon.social mentions briefly that if Gecko was abandoned, they'd prefer Firefox switch to WebKit. The Windows port would need considerable work for that to happen, this is a step along that path:

https://iangrunert.com//2023/12/01/webassembly-webkit-windows.html

Getting a rough estimate on the yearly investment into the browser commons, inspired by the post Where Browsers Come From by @bkardell@toot.cafe

https://iangrunert.com/2023/11/06/estimating-web-browser-investment.html

New 3+ hour interview with Dave Cutler, starting with a story about Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE

The most underwhelming demo:

Really impressive debugging environment, though it'd be nice to catch more of these bugs at compile time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE