Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)

@oscar_spen

WebAssembly advocate and compiler enthusiast 👨🏽‍💻 Co-author @grain_lang, server-side wasm @SuborbitalDev

Boston, MA

Joined January 2014

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Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)
@oscar_spen
Apr 27, 2023
The sky is always bluer on the other side. That's the phrase, yeah? Find me on Bluesky @ospencer.dev
Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)
@oscar_spen
Sep 8, 2022
Huge props to @BlaineBublitz for the tremendous amount of work it took to make this happen!
Grain
@grain_lang
Sep 8, 2022
The Grain playground is now live on our website! You can now give Grain a spin without any downloads. ⚡ Try it out now! grain-lang.org/try/
Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)
@oscar_spen
Aug 17, 2022
I buy way too much seltzer for this level of inflation.
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Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)
@oscar_spen
Jul 8, 2022
Fun fact—just yesterday I had an issue with some code that was blowing the stack. I rewrote it to use CPS, and it turned out that I actually had infinite recursion, so I had the great privilege of blowing the heap instead 😂
Bartosz Milewski
@BartoszMilewski
Jul 8, 2022
Why is CPS transformation (continuation passing style) useful? Because it turns general recursion into tail recursion, which the compiler can easily transform into a goto. Consider this very simple tree:
Oscar Spencer (@ospencer.dev on Bluesky)
@oscar_spen
Jun 6, 2022
Biggest release ever?? We really poured our hearts and souls into this one! 🤩
Grain
@grain_lang
Jun 6, 2022
Grain v0.5 "Durum" is here! Faster compile times, more efficient binaries, a brand new language server, better pattern matching, bigints, and more in this absolutely packed release 🎊🎉🌾 grain-lang.org/blog/2022/06/0…