Keean Schupke

@NodixBlockchain checkout this quota question www.quora.com/How-do-reference-counting-and-garbage-collection-compare the top answer explains the tradeoffs, and appears to say that optimised MS beats optimised RC. Naive MS has a problem with total heap...

This is why they have generational MS. You have a nursery where objects are created, if they live for more than a certain amount of time, objects get moved to...

I think the question is why not just pass all the interfaces as arguments? You can of course do this, after all type classes are implemented as implicit dictionary arguments....

Regarding one implementation per class, that is the advantage of type classes :-) If you want more you need to pass an object or function (because you want the implementation...

I thought typescript included ES6 features, and has integer types as well as strucures (classes). The only one it does not have is "everything is an expression" I think, so...

It may be slower than normal JS objects due to packing issues, or it may be faster due to non-string property lookup. It certainly seems the right way to process...

nodejs can mmap files from JavaScipt which would work well with this too. You don't have too many choices in-browser, you are limited to Blobs with a streaming interface, and...

node-webkit could be an option then (npm nw). You can still compile typescript ( for example: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/quick/nodejs.html )

Well if you want to read and write binary files, its pretty much required. In a browser, FileReader ( http://caniuse.com/#search=FileReader ) is well supported, but FileWriter is not ( http://caniuse.com/#search=FileWriter...

For Android and iOS there are things like Cordova, is that the sort of thing you are thinking about?