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• Debugging Variables With Watchpoints in Firefox 72

  Have you ever wanted to know where properties on objects are read or set in your code, without having to manually add breakpoints or log statements? Watchpoints are a type of breakpoint that provide an answer to that question. They are new in the updated Debugger, available now in the ...

  Posted December 10, 2019 by Miriam Budayr

• DeepSpeech 0.6: Mozilla’s Speech-to-Text Engine Gets Fast, Lean, and Ubiquitous

  The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers. In this overview of recent improvements, we'll show how DeepSpeech can transform your applications by enabling client-side, low-latency, and privacy-preserving ...

  Posted December 05, 2019 by Reuben Morais

• Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime

  Wasmtime, the WebAssembly runtime from the Bytecode Alliance, recently added an early preview of an API for .NET Core, Microsoft’s free, open-source, and cross-platform application runtime. This API enables developers to programmatically load and execute WebAssembly code directly from .NET programs. Although .NET Core is already a cross-platform runtime, there ...

  Posted December 04, 2019 by Peter Huene

• Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

  Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log on events, and network panel full text search! And as if that wasn’t enough, there are important new web platform ...

  Posted December 03, 2019 by Chris Mills

• Multi-Value All The Wasm!

  Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has been adding multi-value support all over the place recently, started with the Rust and WebAssembly toolchain. Next he added support ...

  Posted November 21, 2019 by Nick Fitzgerald