Goodbye, Node.js Buffer

1. proposal-zero-copy-arraybuffer-list

   1 2 2 6.0

   A proposal for zero-copy ArrayBuffer lists

   

2. InfluxDB

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3. proposal-zero-copy-arraybuffer-li

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4. WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

   3 112 15,518 0.0 JavaScript

   Play with fluids in your browser (works even on mobile)

   

   Typed arrays are essential for web apps that use WebGL and WebGPU. Being able to send this typed data to run computations on the GPU in parallel can give you 1000x speed up.

   You can see it in action on this WebGL fluid simulator[0] by PavelDoGreat.

   [0] https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

5. uint8array-extras

   4 1 258 4.7 JavaScript

   Useful utilities for working with Uint8Array (and Buffer)

   

   I wonder why you would introduce an extra dependency for the base64 example. It seems more trivial than left pad.

   https://github.com/sindresorhus/uint8array-extras/blob/cbf24...

6. falcon

   5 2 961 7.4 Jupyter Notebook

   Brushing and linking for big data (by vega)

   

7. nodejs-polars

   6 2 580 7.7 TypeScript

   nodejs front-end of polars

   

8. arquero

   7 10 1,410 6.9 JavaScript

   Query processing and transformation of array-backed data tables.

   

   https://github.com/uwdata/arquero

9. SaaSHub

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10. parquet-wasm

    8 6 590 7.7 Rust

    Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Apache Parquet data

    

    nodejs-polars is node-specific and uses native FFI. polars can be compiled to Wasm but doesn't yet have a js API out of the box.

    As for the fastest way to serialize data to Pandas data to the browser, you should use Parquet; it's the fastest to write on the Python side and read on the JS side, while also being compressed. See https://github.com/kylebarron/parquet-wasm (full disclosure, I wrote this)

11. proposal-arraybuffer-base64

    9 5 276 7.1 HTML

    TC39 proposal for Uint8Array<->base64/hex

    

    The proposal for native base64 support for Uint8Arrays is mine. I'm glad to see people are interested in using it. (So am I!)

    For a status update, for the last year or two the main blocker has been a conflict between a desire to have streaming support and a desire to keep the API small and simple. That's now resolved [1] by dropping streaming support, assuming I can demonstrate a reasonably efficient streaming implementation on top of the one-shot implementation, which won't be hard unless "reasonably efficient" means "with zero copies", in which case we'll need to keep arguing about it.

    I've also been working on documenting [2] the differences between various base64 implementations in other languages and in JS libraries to ensure we have a decent picture of the landscape when designing this.

    With luck, I hope to advance the proposal to stage 3 ("ready for implementations") within the next two meetings of TC39 - so either next month or January. Realistically it will probably take a little longer than that, and of course implementations take a while. But it's moving along.

    [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-arraybuffer-base64/issues/1...

    [2] https://gist.github.com/bakkot/16cae276209da91b652c2cb3f612a...

12. proposal-resizablearraybuffer

    10 6 157 0.0 HTML

    Discontinued Proposal for resizable array buffers

    

    Nit: "fixed-length" is no longer true as of very recently [1].

    [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-resizablearraybuffer

13. proposal-array-from-async

    11 7 188 6.6 HTML

    Draft specification for a proposed Array.fromAsync method in JavaScript.

    

14. proposal-async-iterator-helpers

    12 4 142 3.8 HTML

    Methods for working with async iterators in ECMAScript

    

15. streams

    13 7 1,375 6.0 HTML

    Streams Standard

    

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