A deep dive into WebAssembly with Thomas Nattestad - WasmAssembly

10/28/24 • 50 min

In this episode, WasmAssembly host, Thomas Steiner, chats with Thomas Nattestad, Product Manager on the Google Chrome team. Learn about Chrome's investment in WebAssembly, WebAssembly caching and if there's a solution for cross-origin caching, canvas-rendered apps, and Thomas' take on WebAssembly DOM access and whether WebAssembly will replace JavaScript. Finally, the two talk about the Wasm ES module integration and what this means for bundlers.

Resources:

Thomas' BlinkOn 9 talk → https://goo.gle/4fkaDaU
Thomas' SFHTML5 talk "What, Why, and How to WebAssembly?": https://goo.gle/3NJw8WM (Sep 29, 2018)
Thomas wishing for VB6 for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3NCGZBY May 30, 2019)
VB.NET for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3AeH5N6 (Apr 13, 2019)
WebAssembly at Google WasmCon talk: https://goo.gle/4fl3Ai7
Flutter renderers → https://goo.gle/3AbAJy6
Qt for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3NGrTeG
Flutter support for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3BWT96a
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform → https://goo.gle/48D1jNv
Source phase imports proposal → https://goo.gle/3C2SvEo
WebAssembly ES module integration proposal → https://goo.gle/3C8wd3L
Angular ES module exploration → https://goo.gle/40ip4YM

Resources:

Thomas' BlinkOn 9 talk → https://goo.gle/4fkaDaU
Thomas' SFHTML5 talk "What, Why, and How to WebAssembly?": https://goo.gle/3NJw8WM (Sep 29, 2018)
Thomas wishing for VB6 for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3NCGZBY May 30, 2019)
VB.NET for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3AeH5N6 (Apr 13, 2019)
WebAssembly at Google WasmCon talk: https://goo.gle/4fl3Ai7
Flutter renderers → https://goo.gle/3AbAJy6
Qt for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3NGrTeG
Flutter support for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3BWT96a
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform → https://goo.gle/48D1jNv
Source phase imports proposal → https://goo.gle/3C2SvEo
WebAssembly ES module integration proposal → https://goo.gle/3C8wd3L
Angular ES module exploration → https://goo.gle/40ip4YM

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Special episode on the June meeting of the WebAssembly Community Group - WasmAssembly

This is a special episode of the WasmAssembly podcast, recorded at the June face-to-face meeting of the WebAssembly community group that took place at the WebAssembly Research Center of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thomas Steiner was there for two days, day zero, a pre-event in the form of an academic research day, and day one of the actual face-to-face meeting. While there, he spoke with a lot of the attendees, and this episode will give you a bit of an impression of what was presented and discussed during the meeting.

Resources:

June meeting of the WebAssembly Community Group → https://goo.gle/3U3n2rF
Research day agenda → https://goo.gle/4eRECrb
Elizabeth Gilbert → https://goo.gle/3XXGZ4q
Flexible Non-intrusive Dynamic Instrumentation for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3Y2716o
Adam Bratschi-Kaye → https://goo.gle/3NlK8G4
Internet Computer → https://goo.gle/3zR9WXD
WebAssembly and the Internet Computer Protocol → https://goo.gle/3YitTjF
Dan Gohman → https://goo.gle/4gYmo8E
The World of WASI → https://goo.gle/3YeMVam
Ben Titzer → https://goo.gle/3NkxY0k
WebAssembly Research Center → https://goo.gle/3zFiFME
Adam Klein → https://goo.gle/3zVT1mL
Yuri Iozzelli → https://goo.gle/4dE64ai
Branch hinting → https://goo.gle/3BMlUlM
Emanuel Ziegler → https://goo.gle/3zILDey
Compilation hints → https://goo.gle/3ZZyOHu
Ilya Rezvov → https://goo.gle/3Y6Mb6a
Half-precision (FP16) → https://goo.gle/3Bzluz8
Ben Visness → https://goo.gle/3NhxLL8
Memory control → https://goo.gle/3zRMARE
Thomas Lively → https://goo.gle/3TYZT9K

Day 1 agenda → https://goo.gle/4eTa6fZ

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Squishy Wasm apps using Extism with Dylibso's Steve Manuel - WasmAssembly

Join host Thomas Steiner and Steve Manuel from Dylibso as they dive deep into the world of "squishy" Wasm applications. Steve discusses Dylibso's mission to make all software squishy, using Wasm to unlock flexibility and extensibility in software development. The episode explores Dylibso's projects like Extism and Chicory, and how Extism is being used in production with Wasm today. Come for the Extism logo, and stay for Tom's provocative questions on Extism's role in the WebAssembly ecosystem.

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