Blog posts discussing the technical implementation detail "Zero-Allocation"
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← Back to all tagsThe integration of reactive programming into the Fidelity framework presents a fascinating challenge at the intersection of practical engineering and algorithmic integrity. While exploring various reactive models, we discovered valuable insights from Ken Okabe’s Timeline library - a minimalist F# implementation that demonstrated how powerful reactive systems could be built with remarkably little code. This simplicity was a key inspiration for Alloy.Rx, though we’ve evolved the concepts to align with Fidelity’s unique architectural requirements.
Read MoreThe journey of building the Fidelity Framework has taught us that meaningful changes require careful conceptual positioning alongside technical innovation. When we first introduced the design of Firefly’s zero-allocation compilation capabilities, we established a foundational principle that continues to guide our architectural decisions: functional programming should compile to efficient native code without runtime dependencies. Today, we want to explore how this foundation extends naturally into our roadmap for memory management, and is consistent with the core principles that make Fidelity unique.
Read MoreThe journey of creating a native UI framework for F# presents a fascinating challenge: how do we preserve the elegant, functional programming experience that F# developers love while compiling to efficient native code with (in most cases) zero heap allocations? As we build FidelityUI, the UI framework for the Fidelity ecosystem, we find ourselves at the intersection of functional programming ideals and systems programming realities. Fortunately, we don’t have to start from scratch.
Read MoreThe promise of functional programming has always been apparent: write code that expresses a process to an end result, not how the machine should perform those actions. Yet for decades, this elegance came with a tax - runtime overhead, garbage collection pauses, and the implicit assumption that “real” systems programming belonged to C and its descendants. The Fidelity Framework challenges this assumption by asking a different question: What if we could preserve F#’s expressiveness, safety and precision while compiling to native code that rivals hand-written C in efficiency?
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