November 2018 Archives

Rakudo.js mini update - Firefox support

One pain point when showing Rakudo.js was that it depends on a new version of Chrome due to using not yet everywhere native JavaScript big integers.
I've transitioned from using the not yet avaliable everywhere native BigInts to using the replacement ="https://github…

Rakudo.js update - running tests in the browser using Karma

After fixing some strangling bugs and implementing some unimportant but fickly to implement
things like basic support storing fetching and ++'ing int64/uint64 variables etc. (rakudo.js is 32bit because that's what fits into basic JavaScript numbers).

Focus has now moved to running the roast tests in the browser itself.
For this I'm first precompiling the test files (which has it's own share of problems that I'm working around as rakudo doesn't yet fully support precomplin…

About Paweł Murias

user-pic This is my JavaScript backend for Rakudo/NQP blog.