ceejbot

ESM modules in node: npm edition

The proposal you’re about to read is not just a proposal. We have a working implementation of almost everything we discussed here. We encourage you to checkout and build our branch: our fork, with the relevant branch selected. Building and using the implementation will give you a better understanding of what using it as a developer is like.

Our implementation ended up differing from the proposal on some minor points. As our last action item before making a PR, we’re writing documentation on what we did. While I loathe pointing to tests in lieu of documentation, they will be helpful until we complete writing docs: the unit tests.

This repo also contains a bundled version of npm that has a new command, asset. You can read the documentation for and goals of that comma

bobzhang

A list of languages which compile to JS (Elm, Purescript, OCaml)
(Inspired by this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/Um7WIBTq9xU)
They all support curry calling convention by default.

Some interesting results:

1. `min` is curried function, only OCaml(BuckleScript) managed to optimize this overhead.
2. All optimize the self tail call
3. Only BuckleScript and PureScript type-specialized comparison functoin (>=) and inlined

rauschma

/**
 * Returns the global object.
 * Works even inside ES6 modules.
 */
function getGlobalObject() {
    // Workers don’t have `window`, only `self`
    if (typeof self !== 'undefined') {
        return self;
    }
    if (typeof global !== 'undefined') {

lttlrck

//     Int64.js
//
//     Copyright (c) 2012 Robert Kieffer
//     MIT License - http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

/**
 * Support for handling 64-bit int numbers in Javascript (node.js)
 *
 * JS Numbers are IEEE-754 binary double-precision floats, which limits the
 * range of values that can be represented with integer precision to:

hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh