Chrome is moving away from LevelDB toward SQLite for all backend storage (for IndexedDB too). says why: LevelDB is no longer being actively maintained (& was always expensive to maintain); SQLite is actively maintained & much better fit in practice anyway.

“Can we use Wasmtime to build web script engine?” from @Yu_Wei_Wu explores the idea of using the (Rust-based) wasmtime WebAssembly runtime as the basis for a JavaScript engine (alternative to @SpiderMonkeyJS) for @ServoDev.

RT @matthiasgeihs: This one is such a key insight from @awesomekling. If you hire many engineers, you (typically) get many lines of code.….

RT @FlowBrowser: Flow now passes 90% of the web-platform-tests. 👋🇪🇺 👋Apple

RT @awesomekling: First instance of a YouTube video playing in @ladybirdbrowser! And with sound, too! 🤯🐞. This is with MediaSource disabled….

RT @Paul_Kinlan: There's lots of data about the usage of web constantly declining, replaced by time on closed platforms (FB, Insta, TikTok)….

RT @gmta_nl: Thanks to @devgianlu and many others, @ladybirdbrowser now passes 99.6% of the WebCryptoAPI WPT tests - the highest score of a….

RT @gmta_nl: On Feb 1st, 12:30 I'll be giving a lightning talk (15 min.) on @ladybirdbrowser at @fosdem in Brussels. After that quick talk….

RT @awesomekling: One week into November, @ladybirdbrowser continues pushing forward on web-platform-tests!. This is what grinding out a ne….

RT @awesomekling: Wanna learn how to build a browser from scratch?. Check out by @pavpanchekha and @chrishtr 🤓🌐📘. I….

RT @rniwa_dev: I wrote a new blog post for the first time in 6 years:

RT @jaffathecake: 📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web. Over 10 bug reports later, it turns ou….

RT @webkit: Safari Technology Preview 202 is now available with updates to Accessibility, CSS, Editing, JavaScript, Media, Rendering, SVG,….

RT @changelog: 🎉 New Changelog interview!. 🗣 Why we need @ladybirdbrowser .🌟 with @awesomekling & @defunkt.🎙 hosts @adamstac & @jerodsanto….

RT @awesomekling: We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for @ladybirdbrowser, and the one best suited to our needs appe….

Porffor from @CanadaHonk is a from-scratch *experimental* AOT JS engine, written in JS. Compared to other engines, its WebAssembly output is much faster+smaller, binaries sizes over 1000x smaller, memory usage over 40x less.

RT @ladybirdbrowser: Progress on running the web-platform-tests suite on Ladybird! 🐞🚀. We're now on the WPT dashboard staging area! Coming….

RT @awesomekling: Today I implemented the :host pseudo-class selector in @ladybirdbrowser and it made a pretty big difference on Reddit 🤓 h….

RT @TexZeTech: @imhimkavon @itsfoss2 @FirefoxSupport For others who want to have a direct donate feature go add your opinion on https://t.c….