My name is Salvatore and I wrote code. I typically go by the moniker dested. Ramblings about my journey as a software engineer.
scriptc is Vercel Labs' TypeScript-to-native compiler. It takes TypeScript, emits LLVM IR, and links a real native binary — no Node, no V8, no JavaScript engine in the output. I'd seen it beat node on a toy benchmark and…
LLMs are great at React largely because of Tailwind — style and structure in one file. But Tailwind is verbose, and LLM output is priced and paced per token. So we were going to release Terse Tailwind: a mapping from…
After spending some time in TypeScript you may begin to crave type safety everywhere in your life. JavaScript is an inherently unsafe language and there are dragons to be found everywhere and in almost every framework.…