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Every JIT tier is now enabled on the Windows port of JavaScriptCore. Big thanks to Yusuke Suzuki who had the great idea of using sysv_abi in the first place, and reviewed the bulk of this work. Read more about it here:
https://iangrunert.com/2024/10/07/every-jit-tier-enabled-jsc-windows.html
Wrote a post about enabling WebAssembly on the Windows port for WebKit.
On the first episode of Off The Main Thread, @jaffathecake@mastodon.social mentions briefly that if Gecko was abandoned, they'd prefer Firefox switch to WebKit. The Windows port would need considerable work for that to happen, this is a step along that path:
https://iangrunert.com//2023/12/01/webassembly-webkit-windows.html
Getting a rough estimate on the yearly investment into the browser commons, inspired by the post Where Browsers Come From by @bkardell@toot.cafe
https://iangrunert.com/2023/11/06/estimating-web-browser-investment.html
New 3+ hour interview with Dave Cutler, starting with a story about Sun:
The most underwhelming demo:
Really impressive debugging environment, though it'd be nice to catch more of these bugs at compile time.