Items tagged javascript in May, 2024
Filters: Year: 2024 × Month: May × javascript × Sorted by date
Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank (via) Groq is now serving LLMs such as Llama 3 so quickly that JavaScript which attempts to render Markdown strings on every new token can cause performance issues in browsers.
Taras Glek's solution was to move the rendering to a requestAnimationFrame() callback, effectively buffering the rendering to the fastest rate the browser can support. # 19th May 2024, 1:35 pm
Figma’s journey to TypeScript: Compiling away our custom programming language (via) I love a good migration story. Figma had their own custom language that compiled to JavaScript, called Skew. As WebAssembly support in browsers emerged and improved the need for Skew’s performance optimizations reduced, and TypeScript’s maturity and popularity convinced them to switch.
Rather than doing a stop-the-world rewrite they built a transpiler from Skew to TypeScript, enabling a multi-year migration without preventing their product teams from continuing to make progress on new features. # 4th May 2024, 2:08 pm