I shipped gni-compression to npm two days ago. One of the first questions I got (from myself, running benchmarks at midnight): does it work on anything other than chat data? Short answer: not yet. Long answer: I found out exactly why, and it led me somewhere more interesting than I expected. After the npm launch I ran GN against Silesia — the standard general text compression benchmark suite. Dick
Dart Records & Patterns Deep Dive — Destructuring, Sealed Classes & Exhaustive Matching Dart 3.0 shipped Records, Patterns, and Sealed Classes together. Used well, they eliminate entire categories of runtime errors and make state management dramatically more expressive. // Before: untyped Map Map<String, dynamic> getUserInfo() => {'name': 'Alice', 'age': 30}; // Dart 3: typed Record (String nam