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What's up Python ? Python, the video game, pyodide on the rise, numpy breaks...

Bite code! • 856 implied HN points • 30 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Programming Python WebAssembly Libraries Updates
  1. A new Python video game, JOY OF PROGRAMMING, is available on Steam for learning programming interactively.
  2. Pyodide, a Webassembly CPython port, now has experimental support from urllib3, enabling Python to run in the browser.
  3. Numpy 2 is set to release soon, with changes that may impact compatibility, so users should prepare by checking and updating dependencies.

A Nibble of Quadtrees in Rust

Get Code • 7 implied HN points • 22 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Data Structures WebAssembly Image Processing
  1. Quadtrees are data structures where each non-leaf node has exactly four children and are used to represent properties of two-dimensional space.
  2. Quadtrees are used for performance reasons, like optimizing collision detection in simulations with many moving objects.
  3. Implementing region quadtrees in Rust involves subdividing the tree based on error thresholds and region lengths to efficiently represent images.

A look at WebAssembly, the webs powerful new technology part 2

Deus In Machina • 0 implied HN points • 19 Oct 23
🕹 Technology WebAssembly Programming JavaScript HTML Memory
  1. WebAssembly is primarily designed as a compilation target for languages like C, C++, and Rust.
  2. WebAssembly files consist of sections like modules with code, and data sections for storing strings or variables.
  3. To interact with WebAssembly modules, JavaScript can import functions and memories from the module to perform tasks like logging messages or manipulating data.

What's WebAssembly?

Technically • 0 implied HN points • 06 Mar 24
🕹 Technology WebAssembly Programming Languages Performance Developer Tools
  1. WebAssembly allows developers to write code in faster languages like C++ and Rust that can run in the browser, solving performance limitations of JavaScript.
  2. Code running in the browser can only be written in JavaScript, leading to the development of WebAssembly to execute non-JavaScript code in the browser.
  3. WebAssembly can be used to offload specific parts of applications into modules that run faster, like using C++ or Rust code compiled into WebAssembly for more efficient operations.
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The Significance of In-Broker Data Transformations in Streaming Data

Tributary Data • 0 implied HN points • 28 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Data Engineering WebAssembly
  1. Data scrubbing in streaming data pipelines is essential for cleaning and processing data in real-time to ensure it's ready for consumption.
  2. In-broker data transformations powered by WebAssembly (Wasm) are revolutionizing how data processing tasks are handled in streaming data platforms, reducing dependency on external systems.
  3. WebAssembly (Wasm) provides developers with flexibility, performance, security, and portability benefits for server-side processing in frameworks like Redpanda Data Transforms, streamlining data processing tasks within brokers.