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On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily developing software for medical equipment. Twenty years ago, he developed a deep professional interest in Java virtual machine internals. You may remember his research blog posts, […]
You may have noticed that the Swift compiler automatically treats the closure of a DispatchQueue.main.async call as @MainActor. In other words, we can call a main-actor-isolated function in the closure: import Dispatch @MainActor func mainActorFunc() { } DispatchQueue.main.async { // The compiler lets us call this because // it knows we’re on the main actor. […]
Firefox development uncovers many cross-platform differences and unique features of its combination of dependencies. Engineers working on Firefox regularly overcome these challenges and while we can’t detail all of them, we think you’ll enjoy hearing about some so here’s a sample of a recent technical investigation. During the Firefox 120 beta cycle, a new crash […]