Learn about Web Assembly (WASM) and how front-end development will change forever as the browser is opening up to new languages like Rust and Go.
I’ve recently been working on getting Rust support in the Qvault app. In order to write a more engaging course, I want students to be able to write and execute code right in the browser. As I’ve learned from my previous posts on this topic, the easiest way to sandbox code execution on a server … Read more
We’ve been wanting to expand Qvault’s curriculum, and one of the most requested programming languages has been Python. Because our courses allow students to write and execute code right in the web browser, we decided to look into existing projects that allow a Python interpreter to run in the browser using Web Assembly. We settled … Read more
We’ve recently made big changes to how we execute Go in the browser on Qvault and want to explain the enhancements. Web Workers are the reason we’ve been able to solve some of the serious browser-related coding problems that were holding us back. Consider this article a sequel to Running Go in the Browser with … Read more
While working on Qvault’s Go Playground, I came across a very strange error. The standard library’s fmt.Printf() function prints nothing to the console when called. Nothing. For those of you who are familiar with the function, when compiled to a “normal” executable fmt.Printf prints a formatted string to standard output. As per the official documentation, … Read more
We just launched the new Qvault computer science platform and can’t be more excited. Our first crash course in Go, “Go Mastery” is now available! We teach students by allowing them to write, compile, and run backend code directly in the browser. Our Difference Education as an industry is unbelievably far behind when it comes … Read more
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground. The cool thing … Read more
