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A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey | Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful tool in JavaScript for manipulating strings. They’re also heavily used, so it’s important for SpiderMonkey (the JavaScript engine in Firefox) to optimize them well. By introducing a shim layer between SpiderMonkey and the Irregexp regexp engine, it has become easier to support new features more quickly.
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Compiler Compiler - Inside Mozilla's JavaScript Engine |
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Join Mozilla engineer Yulia Startsev for a live guided tour of working on the SpiderMonkey compiler and improving its conformance with ECMA-262, the JavaScript Specification. In this series, she will go step by step through open issues, implement fixes, and help you understand spec text. Viewers will be invited to ask questions, make suggestions, and, if they fix a bug themselves, have their solutions discussed on the stream.
Sessions are one hour long, streamed via Twitch, and start at 15:00 UTC (8am PST, 17:00 CEST).
The next episode is June 12.
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Create Customized Virtual Events in Hubs Cloud
Liv Erickson on the Hubs team has advice for organizers of online events such as meetups and conferences. She's also created a video tutorial to help you set up your event space with Hubs Cloud.
You might also wish to optimize imported assets for speed. These three videos can help you understand how and why changes to your materials, textures, and lighting can optimize your 3D content.
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Try Out Our New iOS WebXR Viewer
Version 2.0 of our WebXR Viewer is the first web browser on iOS to implement the new WebXR Device API. Released on May 29, the viewer enables high-performance AR experiences on the web via iOS that don't share pictures of private spaces with third party Javascript libraries and websites.
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Firefox Reality for the HoloLens 2
Mozilla's Mixed Reality team is excited to announce the first public release of Firefox Reality in the Microsoft store. This initial release focuses on exposing the powerful AR capabilities of HoloLens 2 devices to web developers through the new WebXR standard.
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Talks and Resources from Open Source 101 at Home and PyCon 2020 Online
Learn from program participants of these conferences sponsored by Mozilla Developer Relations.
Open Source 101 at Home →
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Community Surveys
Both the Rust and PyCon communities are reaching out to participants for input to help them plan for an even better future. If you are a Rust contributor, attended PyCon 2020 Online, or both, please provide them with your feedback.
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