Note: skeleton crew in August 

deepMind APIs hackathon 

https://deepmind.google 

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JS Language News [Lee Mason]

• Safely importing other file types (JSON currently supported) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import/with

• example: let dt=(await import("https://danielruss.github.io/codingsystems/soc2010_all.json",{with:{"type":"json"}})).default;dt

• New methods in the Set prototype (union, difference, intersection, etc.) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Set 

• Float16Array (could be useful for ML!) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float16Array 

• Promise.try() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise/try 

• Some other stuff with promises and iterators. 

gRPC - google/general RPC for web

grpc-web will work without node:

• mod = await import('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/grpc-web@1.5.0/+esm')

• mod = await import('https://esm.sh/grpc-web')

• Why REST people hate RPC (like me ;-)) : https://youtu.be/WpXs7e7kEoI?t=256

• rRPC-web tutorial: https://torq.io/blog/grpc-web-using-grpc-in-your-front-end-application 

• Protocol buffers: https://grpc.io/docs/what-is-grpc/introduction  (5mins!)

• Note how RPC essentially goes around the Web Stack in the effort to decouple data from business layer. Btw, that doesn't stop anyone from claiming it's the best for microservices, or even "the best of both worlds". The fact is that DeepMind uses it and we'd better learn how to operate it from the browser ...