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I usually build web games in C++, but using Emscripten always felt like overkill for what I was doing. I don't need full POSIX emulation or a massive standard library just to render some stuff to a canvas and handle basic UI.

The main thing I wanted to solve was the JS/WASM interop bottleneck. Instead of using the standard glue code for every call, I moved everything to a Shared Memory architecture using Command and Event buffers.

The way it works is that I batch all the instructions in WASM and then just send a single "flush" signal to JS. The JS side then reads everything directly out of Shared Memory in one go. It’s way more efficient, I ran a benchmark rendering 10k rectangles on a canvas and the difference was huge: Emscripten hit around 40 FPS, while my setup hit 100 FPS.

But writing DOM logic in C++ is painful, so I built Coi. It’s a component-based language that statically analyzes changes at compile-time to enable O(1) reactivity. Unlike traditional frameworks, there is no Virtual DOM overhead; the compiler maps state changes directly to specific handles in the command buffer.

I recently benchmarked this against React and Vue on a 1,000-row table: Coi came out on top for row creation, row updating and element swapping because it avoids the "diffing" step entirely and minimizes bridge crossings. Its bundle size was also the smallest of the three.

One of the coolest things about the architecture is how the standard library works. If I want to support a new browser API (like Web Audio or a new Canvas feature), I just add the definition to my WebCC schema file. When I recompile the Coi compiler, the language automatically gains a new standard library function to access that API. There is zero manual wrapping involved.

I'm really proud of how it's coming along. It combines the performance of a custom WASM stack with a syntax that actually feels good to write (for me atleast :P). Plus, since the intermediate step is C++, I’m looking into making it work on the server side too, which would allow for sharing components across the whole stack.

Example (Coi Code):

component Counter(string label, mut int& value) {

    def add(int i) : void {
        value += i;
    }

    style {
        .counter {
            display: flex;
            gap: 12px;
            align-items: center;
        }
        button {
            padding: 8px 16px;
            cursor: pointer;
        }
    }

    view {
        <div class="counter">
            <span>{label}: {value}</span>
            <button onclick={add(1)}>+</button>
            <button onclick={add(-1)}>-</button>
        </div>
    }

component App { mut int score = 0;

    style {
        .app {
            padding: 24px;
            font-family: system-ui;
        }
        h1 {
            color: #1a73e8;
        }
        .win {
            color: #34a853;
            font-weight: bold;
        }
    }

    view {
        <div class="app">
            <h1>Score: {score}</h1>
            <Counter label="Player" &value={score} />
            <if score >= 10>
                <p class="win">You win!</p>
            </if>
        </div>
    }

app { root = App; title = "My Counter App"; description = "A simple counter built with Coi"; lang = "en"; }

Live Demo: https://io-eric.github.io/coi

Coi (The Language): https://github.com/io-eric/coi

WebCC: https://github.com/io-eric/webcc

I'd love to hear what you think. It's still far from finished, but as a side project I'm really excited about :)

I’m trying to do the “voice assistant” thing fully locally: mic → model → speaker, low latency, ideally streaming + interruptible (barge-in).

Qwen3 Omni looks perfect on paper (“real-time”, speech-to-speech, etc). But I’ve been poking around and I can’t find a single reproducible “here’s how I got the open weights doing real speech-to-speech locally” writeup. Lots of “speech in → text out” or “audio out after the model finishes”, but not a usable realtime voice loop. Feels like either (a) the tooling isn’t there yet, or (b) I’m missing the secret sauce.

What are people actually using in 2026 if they want open + local voice?

Is anyone doing true end-to-end speech models locally (streaming audio out), or is the SOTA still “streaming ASR + LLM + streaming TTS” glued together?

If you did get Qwen3 Omni speech-to-speech working: what stack (transformers / vLLM-omni / something else), what hardware, and is it actually realtime?

What’s the most “works today” combo on a single GPU?

Bonus: rough numbers people see for mic → first audio back

Would love pointers to repos, configs, or “this is the one that finally worked for me” war stories.

For example, Android builds steer towards using `sdkmanager --licenses`.

Suppose I get a preconfigured VPS with Claude Code, and ask it to make an android port of an app I have built, it will almost always automatically downloads the sdkmanager and accepts the license.

That is the flow that exists many times in its training data (which represents its own interesting wrinkle).

Regardless of what is in the license; I was a bit surprised to see it happen, and I'm sure I won't be the last nor will the android sdk license be the only one.

What is the legal status of an agreement accepted in such a manner - and perhaps more importantly - what ought to be the legal status considering that any position you take will be exploited by bad faith ~~actors~~ agents?

Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops as part of law enforcement investigations, according to reports. This raises concerns about the privacy and security implications of technology companies sharing user data with government agencies.

The article discusses a software bug that caused a segmentation fault, which went undetected for a long time. It explores the process of identifying and fixing the issue, highlighting the importance of thorough testing and understanding system internals in addressing complex software problems.

The article discusses Vinyl, a JavaScript library that simplifies the development of single-page applications (SPAs) by providing a lightweight and efficient virtual DOM implementation. It highlights Vinyl's features, including its small footprint, fast updates, and ease of use, making it a suitable choice for building modern web applications.