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Median voter level take there.

Someone made a game for me!

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I think there's a much better architecture. VMs are too coarse grained to be secure.

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That's terrible. I like that they sit. It makes them more chill and them and me both more comfortable.

The Zena Programming Language @zena-lang.dev · 01/10/2026

Reposted by Justin Fagnani

New on the zena-lang.dev/playground: code image generation! Click the 📸 to launch a dialog where you can choose a theme, background, and other options, and generate a PNG or SVG locally with no external tools!

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Strange. I've tested on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. What's vanadium based on? No site should crash a browser. Have you filled a bug with them?

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I hope the distinction sharpens. Not every device and environment has a proper VM, and not every user should have to understand the implications. Can Muse run locally in a shell?

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That is a very complicated question, because I don't want them to have to be JS or HTML, but they also need to work everywhere. I want to say Wasm, but that leaves a big UI question open. I'm working on some of these issues. I'd be happy to talk!

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Mini apps for sure. Bluesky could be like an... everything app 🤔

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The Zena Programming Language @zena-lang.dev · 01/10/2026

I'm slowly getting Zena's tools capable of running outside of the Zena monorepo so people can try it out on more than just the online playground. I'm a little nervous about the language still being in such flux, but I think people need to be able to play with it more.

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Reposted by Justin Fagnani

Today we landed more Range support in the language and stdlib 🥳 - Iterating over ranges, with a fast-path in the compiler to emit the same bytecode as a plain C-style for loop - [] overrides on Array for slicing operations a..b is Zena's range syntax, very much like Rust. #wasm #webassembly

A Zena code example of using range syntax in loops and array slices.

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It's fucking horrific. "receiving life-saving medical care" after surviving Tennessee execution should shame everyone for multiple reasons.

CLI requires a terminal and hopefully a VM. Assumption that really only hold for developers. I'm hoping* we continue to get better ways to being tools to agents and vice verse. * working on 😉

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What if WebAssembly were invented before JavaScript? That question is motivating a lot of my recent experiments.

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Next up might be direct share to Bluesky with the image and alt text* if that's possible. *oops, I forgot on the top post here. See, it's necessary.

Working on code-image exports for the @zena-lang.dev playground. A new programming language in this era is going to need every possible sharing and viral-spread path to be as easy and pretty as possible. No copying into another tool to make nice looking code images.

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Oh no! 😬 Hope it's not that bad. Broken feet sound really annoying.

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I eagerly await! I'm working a little on the Wasm app container side (between Zena work), but no PDS integration yet. I think it's a bit more involved than just running Wasm modules on the PDS - they need to have very tightly controlled permissions, and yet ways to do useful things...

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I'm very intrigued by the idea of atproto PDSes as universal personal app backends. They can already do the data, they just need the logic. WebAssembly should be perfect for that.

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How precise are you with checking for the moveBefore() preconditions so that it doesn't throw? Do you just check same parent?

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Hi! What do you have and what do I know?

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I think what matters is the protocol the code uses to draw UI and respond to events, security model, and that it's well supported on all platforms. I'd probably go with something pretty low-level. Assuming that the UI code and references to it are all on-protocol, some part will be declarative.

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I hadn't heard about it, but "s*nd*box*s, impending microvm and container obsolescence" is right up my alley! 🤔

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The Zena Programming Language @zena-lang.dev · 29/09/2026

In a similar way, there won't be "a" atproto app. UIs will come with data so that data can render itself inside of atproto super apps. (This is something I'm dying to start prototyping ASAP, and one reason I'm all in on Wasm these days - but we need a proper secure UI story)

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Reposted by Justin Fagnani

New blog post on zena-lang.dev: Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era zena-lang.dev/blog/2026/09... Includes why I think a language good for humans and WebAssembly is good for AI, and why Zena is a project that's optimistic that humans have a place in software development.

zena-lang.dev

Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era

What makes a programming language effective when AI agents write, test, and review code, and why being optimized for WebAssembly is being optimized for AI.

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Before you even get to syncing - can you take an app and its state (documents, settings, etc) and just move it to another device? We used to be able to do this with no support from the app and before networks were common. Now the app has to specially build this in, at least for non-wizards.

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Cool! I'm about to have the same thing working in @zena-lang.dev

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The web's security model is just too coarse-grained, and it's too hard to move an app and its state across devices/sessions. The web's architecture biases towards centralized authority. Even if it's technically possible to be local-first or self-hosted, it's too difficult.

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We need a better and more secure way to run on-demand, ephemeral, networked apps than what the web currently provides.

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AT Proto will start to be used as the universal notification layer, including all the rich media and actions of silo'ed OS notification systems. AT Proto will for the basis of a sovereign AI agent harness system with portability of data and workflows via PDS migrations.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

I deserve this for describing Zena as leaning pedantic

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Reposted by Justin Fagnani

What we tax and how we tax it matters. If we think developers are making too much money, we should tax their incomes, not the badly needed new housing they build.

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