Shadaj Laddad Profile picture
PhD student at @BerkeleySky + https://t.co/Ax69nGsKRw, building languages for distributed systems. Prev: {@google, @facebook, @apollographql, @khanacademy, @coursera}
Jul 15, 2022 13 tweets 6 min read
After FOUR-plus YEARS of development, we've merged support for 32-bit platforms (including #WebAssembly) into @scala_native 🎉🎉🎉 (github.com/scala-native/s…). 🧵 on the story of how this happened 👇 (1/n) Image It all started back in 2017, on my high-school's robotics team. We had been using Scala (github.com/team846/potass…), but on the JVM. This had a brutal performance impact, with the robot taking 2+ min to boot up and having to use a USB drive for swap (!). (2/n)