A developer created a browser-based reimplementation of QBasic 1.1, including the compiler, virtual machine, and IDE, built with TypeScript and Svelte 5.
Laurence Tratt presents yk, a technology that automatically adds just-in-time compilation to existing language implementations like Lua and MicroPython without major code changes. Demonstrations show performance improvements of approximately 2–4x across benchmarks, achieved with minimal modifications to the original VM codebase.