wasm

This article introduces a web-based tool that checks the safety of PostgreSQL migrations using a WASM parser, helping developers validate database changes.

DuckDB-Wasm now supports persistent databases in browsers using the Origin Private File System (OPFS), enabling data to survive page reloads and browser restarts with built-in storage.

The article explores how to embed functions in pure data using defunctionalization, discussing typeclasses in Haskell and a toy WASM backend example.

A public package that allows playing Freedoom in the browser as an installable PWA with WebMCP agent tools, based on Chocolate Doom WASM.

TeXbrain is an open-source, browser-based LaTeX editor that compiles LaTeX to PDF using WebAssembly, offering features like live preview, git integration, and offline support.

fx.sh has updated to version 0.0.5, adding support for Grok and Codex subscriptions, along with improvements like a smaller binary size, WASM support, and enhanced security for a lightweight coding agent.

BrowserPod 3.0 has been released, enabling the execution of any Rust application in the browser with full Linux syscall support, along with fixes for Node.js and initial Python integration, without requiring code changes.

Basin is a numerical optimization library for Rust that provides a broad catalog of solvers, first-class constraint support, and a WebAssembly-ready default build.

jax-js is an open-source ML library and compiler for the web, bringing JAX-like numerical computing to JavaScript with WebGPU and WebAssembly kernels, all running client-side.

parakeet.wgsl enables fast, accurate NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 speech transcription entirely in the browser using raw WebGPU compute shaders and SIMD WASM, with a live demo and open-source library.

The Firecrawl team open-sourced pdf-inspector, a fast Rust library that automatically determines whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, directly extracts text and converts it to Markdown, avoiding unnecessary OCR, supports table and multi-column layout detection, and provides Python/Node.js/Rust/WASM interfaces.

This article presents a tool that simulates TCP packet loss and congestion control in the browser using Go compiled to WebAssembly, enabling network resilience testing for web applications.

Weblings is a Rust compiler toolchain compiled to WebAssembly, enabling compilation and execution of Rust code directly in the browser via a web UI with a playground and Rustlings exercises.

ComfyUI-OpenCut is a new open-source plugin that integrates a full-featured video editor directly into ComfyUI, allowing multi-track editing, keyframes, effects, and real-time preview in the browser without server-side processing.

Wanix is a Wasm-native Unix sandboxing tool that lets you run and interact with real Wasm and x86 programs entirely in the browser using Web Components, inspired by Plan 9.

The author presents a pattern for sharing AI agents by compiling them into sealed WASM modules that only import a single inference function, allowing others to run the agent using their own local model without API keys or security risks.

The author details the challenges and solution for adding Go as a language to a browser-based code runner (dailyprog), explaining why the standard GOOS=js approach fails in a V8 isolate and how using GOOS=wasip1 with a minimal WASI host shim succeeds.

Google announces LiteRT.js, a high-performance JavaScript runtime for running AI models directly in the browser using WebAssembly and hardware acceleration, as an evolution from TensorFlow.js.

NoiseLang is a probabilistic programming language where every value is a distribution. It compiles to efficient Monte Carlo simulations using a JIT compiler and supports conditional inference.

Satteri is a Markdown processing pipeline that combines a fast Rust engine with flexible JavaScript plugins, available as WASM for in-browser use.