WebAssembly and its platform targets

When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit

Unravelling `lambda` expressions

When I first wrote my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I left out lambda expressions as I knew I couldn't unravel them without unravelling assignment expressions. Luckily, I solved

Unravelling assignment expressions

As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I initially skipped tackling assignment expressions because I made them more complicated than I needed to in my head. 😅 But there is

Unravelling `if` statements

After the initial posting of my summary post about my syntactic sugar series, I received the following reply to one of my tweets: 🤔 wondering… ‘if/else’ (14 on your list) can be implemented

Unravelling Python's classes

For the second-to-last post in my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] (the final post will be a summary/conclusion post), I am tackling what I expect is my largest and

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