Much of today’s software limits user extensibility. This article explores one potential route forward using capabilities, effects, and extension-time type checking to provide a more predictable extension path.
I used to naively assume that Clang always handed off the same IR to the LLVM optimisation pipeline regardless of optimisation level. In an attempt to gain a bit more understanding into exactly what kinds of decisions depend on optimisation level in Clang, I surveyed the IR emission code paths.
Background As part of my work on the Stylo / Quantum CSS team at Mozilla, I needed to be able to test changes to Firefox that only affect Linux 32-bit builds. These days, I believe you essentially have to use a 64-bit host to build Firefox to avoid OOM issues during linking and potentially other steps, so this means some form of cross-compiling from a Linux 64-bit host to a Linux 32-bit target....
I am excited to announce that we’re now shipping WiFi debugging for Firefox for Android! It’s available in Firefox for Android 42 with Firefox Nightly on desktop. The rest of this post will sound quite similar to the previous announcement for Firefox OS support. WiFi debugging allows WebIDE to connect to Firefox for Android via your local WiFi network instead of a USB cable. The connection experience is generally more straightforward (especially after connecting to a device the first time) than with USB and also more convenient to use since you’re no longer tied down by a cable....
I am excited to announce that we’re now shipping WiFi debugging for Firefox OS! It’s available in Firefox OS 3.0 / master with Firefox Nightly on desktop. WiFi debugging allows WebIDE to connect to your Firefox OS device via your local WiFi network instead of a USB cable. The connection experience is generally more straightforward (especially after connecting to a device the first time) than with USB and also more convenient to use since you’re no longer tied down by a cable....