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  • Someone Ported the TypeScript Compiler to Rust Without Reading It

    When Microsoft announced its native TypeScript compiler rewrite, the team explained why they picked Go over Rust: garbage collection made the port tractable, and a Rust rewrite would need years and risk producing an incompatible language. This week a developer called that answer with an experiment. ts-rust is an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript…

  • The C Standard Is Quietly Deleting Its Undefined Behavior

    Martin Uecker stood up at Kernel Recipes 2026 and defended C, then immediately admitted the language’s biggest liability. The liability is undefined behavior, and the committee that owns the standard is now actively deleting it. Jonathan Corbet’s writeup of the talk, Reducing undefined behavior in the C language, is worth your time if you maintain…

  • Your Architecture Diagram Is Not Your Resilience

    Mark Russinovich and the Azure reliability team published a post last month that makes an uncomfortable argument: Microsoft Azure engineers have concluded that your architecture diagram proves nothing about whether your workload can survive a bad Tuesday. A diagram is a statement of intent. Only a test tells you what you actually have. The post,…

  • JPEG XL ships in Chrome 155, three years after Google deleted it

    The Chrome team has shipped decoding support for JPEG XL in Chrome 155, enabled by default, which would be routine news except for the history. Google removed JPEG XL from Chromium back in 2023, targeting M110, with stated reasons that included insufficient ecosystem interest and the maintenance burden of keeping an experimental decoder around. Three…

  • God of War, recompiled from PSP MIPS to WebAssembly, runs at 60 fps in a browser tab

    Samir, who publishes as snuri00, posted a project on GitHub called psp-web-recomp that takes God of War: Chains of Olympus, a 2008 PlayStation Portable title, and runs it in a browser tab at 60 frames per second. No emulator in the classical sense. The game’s MIPS machine code is translated ahead of time into C++,…

  • Anyscale on Azure reaches general availability with managed Ray on your own AKS cluster

    Anyscale on Azure went generally available on October 7, closing out a run that started with a private preview in November 2025 and a public preview at Microsoft Build this June. The short version: managed Ray on Kubernetes, but the Kubernetes cluster is yours, sitting in your Azure subscription, and the bill lands on your…

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