Senior Scientist at AWS, https://t.co/Ax69nGtiH4, automated reasoning for distributed systems. PhD from @UCBerkeley. Co-organizer https://t.co/mV8bqpr3KF. Views mine.
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)
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)