wasm

A tweet promotes scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler claiming to be 1.6x faster than bun --aot, while candidly warning that the benchmark is untrustworthy since scriptc was optimized against it. The post details scriptc's LLVM-based pipeline, coverage reports, npm package bundling, and cross-compilation to native binaries and WebAssembly.

fx/libfx v0.0.14 introduces a durability adapter API that makes its Zig-based coding agent harness survive crashes, redeploys, and timeouts across local, Postgres, or Vercel Workflows backends with minimal integration code.

Neuphonic open-sources NeuDecide under Apache 2.0, a 43 MB audio-to-tool-call model that skips transcription, achieving 72.4% tool accuracy on SLURP while running on a single CPU thread with a browser WASM demo.

Armin Ronacher explains Codemode, a new Pi 1.0 feature that lets LLMs orchestrate complex tool calls from JavaScript running in a sandboxed WASM/QuickJS harness environment, revisiting his earlier "code is all you need" argument for agent tool design.

Nishant Joshi argues that personal devices on users' desks already hold massive unused compute (≈15 TFLOPS, 46 GB RAM), and that shipping data to the cloud for work whose context is already local is pure waste. He contends servers should only be used for coordination, authority, and sync, though he acknowledges limits around engineering cost, billing trust, and frontier models.

ind-igo/bend-frontend is a composable frontend for Bend 2 written in Bend that type-checks programs once and emits a typed, serializable Core.Program for any backend, including EVM (via bend-evm) and 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.