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Comparing WASM-first languages (MoonBit, AssemblyScript, Grain) with languages that added a WASM backend (Rust, C/C++, TinyGo, Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, C#, SwiftWasm). Using linear memory vs. Wasm GC, Component Model support, binary size, and maturity as axes, this article explains how to choose a WASM language in 2026.
From WASM runtimes like Wasmtime, Wasmer, WasmEdge, wazero, and WAMR, through WASI/Component Model tooling (WIT, wit-bindgen, cargo-component, jco), upper frameworks (Extism, Spin, wasmCloud, Proxy-Wasm), to GPU implementations (Dawn, wgpu) — a layer-by-layer map of who implements WASM's raw APIs, and how to choose, as of 2026.
Building a distributed system means building node discovery, liveness detection, messaging, and agreement before getting to the actual work. Alopex Chirps takes on exactly those four. This covers what it handles and what it does not, why QUIC was chosen, and how openraft came to be the consensus layer.
The world in which nodes send signed, contradictory information. The meaning of the constant n=3f+1, PBFT's three-phase voting, Tendermint's locking rules, HotStuff's quorum certificates, and what the DAG-BFT designs since Narwhal separated and what they removed. Part 3 of a 4-part series.
A quick introduction to Nim, and an announcement of two desktop products I started in Nim — Nimino, a Tauri-like lightweight WebView app framework, and Nimculus, a Zed-like GPU-native code editor.
The myth that 'Rust can do anything' collapses the moment you try to scale a recursive AST. For SQL parsers — massive tagged unions, deep recursion — Rust's type system breaks down in both compile time and maintainability. A 3-language benchmark porting the same parser to Nim and Roc shows exactly why Rust is structurally the wrong tool, with runnable code.
A technical look at Roc — Richard Feldman's pure functional language. Covering the alpha4-rolling status, Perceus reference counting, the Platform/Host model, and the Zig compiler rewrite, informed by AlopexDB's SQL parser trial.
A technical overview of Nim in 2026 — the stable 2.2 series, the upcoming 3.0 (Nimony) compiler rewrite, ORC memory management, C ABI interop, and its real-world performance as an SQL parser candidate for AlopexDB.
Comparing WASM-first languages (MoonBit, AssemblyScript, Grain) with languages that added a WASM backend (Rust, C/C++, TinyGo, Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, C#, SwiftWasm). Using linear memory vs. Wasm GC, Component Model support, binary size, and maturity as axes, this article explains how to choose a WASM language in 2026.
From WASM runtimes like Wasmtime, Wasmer, WasmEdge, wazero, and WAMR, through WASI/Component Model tooling (WIT, wit-bindgen, cargo-component, jco), upper frameworks (Extism, Spin, wasmCloud, Proxy-Wasm), to GPU implementations (Dawn, wgpu) — a layer-by-layer map of who implements WASM's raw APIs, and how to choose, as of 2026.
Building a distributed system means building node discovery, liveness detection, messaging, and agreement before getting to the actual work. Alopex Chirps takes on exactly those four. This covers what it handles and what it does not, why QUIC was chosen, and how openraft came to be the consensus layer.
The world in which nodes send signed, contradictory information. The meaning of the constant n=3f+1, PBFT's three-phase voting, Tendermint's locking rules, HotStuff's quorum certificates, and what the DAG-BFT designs since Narwhal separated and what they removed. Part 3 of a 4-part series.
A quick introduction to Nim, and an announcement of two desktop products I started in Nim — Nimino, a Tauri-like lightweight WebView app framework, and Nimculus, a Zed-like GPU-native code editor.
The myth that 'Rust can do anything' collapses the moment you try to scale a recursive AST. For SQL parsers — massive tagged unions, deep recursion — Rust's type system breaks down in both compile time and maintainability. A 3-language benchmark porting the same parser to Nim and Roc shows exactly why Rust is structurally the wrong tool, with runnable code.
A technical look at Roc — Richard Feldman's pure functional language. Covering the alpha4-rolling status, Perceus reference counting, the Platform/Host model, and the Zig compiler rewrite, informed by AlopexDB's SQL parser trial.
A technical overview of Nim in 2026 — the stable 2.2 series, the upcoming 3.0 (Nimony) compiler rewrite, ORC memory management, C ABI interop, and its real-world performance as an SQL parser candidate for AlopexDB.
