A promising feature: JavaScript Promise Integration with Francis McCabe - WasmAssembly

08/26/24 • 52 min

In this episode, Thomas Steiner chats with Francis McCabe from Google, who's the champion of the JavaScript Promise Integration and the Stack Switching proposals. They go from talking about synchronous assumptions in code over to discussing the JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) proposal and how to use it in practice, its performance implications, and how to use it in practice. After exploring a neat side effect of JSPI, namely lazy loading, the fall into the rabbit hole of comparing JSPI to the upcoming ES module integration of Wasm. Finally, Francis gives an overview of his other early stage Stack Switching proposal.

Resources: The Paper introducing Go! → https://goo.gle/3AiyCrY The JSPI proposal → https://goo.gle/3yxfkOM JSPI entering origin trial → https://goo.gle/4cjprok JSPI origin trial → https://goo.gle/4cmjxD4 Introducing JSPI → https://goo.gle/3YEPT90 The new JSPI API → https://goo.gle/4cie1RN The JSPI API change → https://goo.gle/4cie1RN Code example → https://goo.gle/3Arlq3P Stack-Switching Proposal for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3Ar2KRM The Vivant series → https://goo.gle/46Htp97

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String built-ins with Mozilla's Ryan Hunt - WasmAssembly

In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Mozilla's Ryan Hunt, who's the champion of the string built-ins proposal. They first discuss Ryan's way into Mozilla and his role in the SpiderMonkey team, and then dive deep into the string built-ins proposal and some challenges and rabbit holes with it.

Resources: Ryan Hunt on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3Wxcfqb

SpiderMonkey blog → https://goo.gle/3Ww8ReX

WasmGC proposal → https://goo.gle/3Sz2CG7

Google Sheets WasmGC → https://goo.gle/4foOXv7

BrowserTech podcast episode with Row Zero → https://goo.gle/3SyfAUR

String Built-ins proposal → https://goo.gle/3LPXzxw

Potential other built-ins → https://goo.gle/4d445fL

Lin Clark's post on calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly being finally fast → https://goo.gle/3WNoeRV

The problems with `this` and operators like `===` → https://goo.gle/3WrWGA8

Using built-ins → https://goo.gle/3LONEIk

Polyfilling built-ins → https://goo.gle/4fpW4DJ

Scheme Wasm compiler → https://goo.gle/3Syg6lL

OCaml compiler → https://goo.gle/3A4Qs1B

Compact impact section proposal → https://goo.gle/4d5rBZQ

Compact impact section slides → https://goo.gle/4d7NU12

Memory64 proposal → https://goo.gle/4fqmghr

Seinfeld → https://goo.gle/3YyxpHb

Frasier → https://goo.gle/46CiRYT

Scrubs → https://goo.gle/3AiWhbu

Culver's restaurants → https://goo.gle/3LLRyBZ

Menards home improvement store → https://goo.gle/3WJpiWG

Ryan on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3A9BSG4

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Exploring the Bytecode Alliance with Cosmonic's Bailey Hayes - WasmAssembly

In this episode, your host Thomas Steiner chats with Cosmonic's CTO and Bytecode Alliance technical steering committee and board member, Bailey Hayes, about the exciting world of WebAssembly at her company, and specifically at the Bytecode Alliance. After exploring how Cosmonic makes use of WASI for their wasmCloud product, they get into details about the Bytecode Alliance, the workstreams and projects hosted there, and how to work with it.

Resources:

Bailey Hayes on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/47xpA6M

Cosmonic's post welcoming Bailey → https://goo.gle/3ZzM1Gy

WebAssembly on the factory floor → https://goo.gle/3ZynB01

What is Cosmonic → https://goo.gle/4ethuhW

jco → https://goo.gle/4ecjdIC

jco example → https://goo.gle/4gwhBLu

SpiderMonkey → https://goo.gle/4gIR1Ps

WASI http → https://goo.gle/3MQvK8L

WasmAssembly episode with Ryan Hunt on string built-ins: https://goo.gle/3zs0Mk3

The various HTTP methods in WASI http → https://goo.gle/3Xxp9EX

WasmAssembly episode with Luke Wagner on WASI and the component model → https://goo.gle/3Xxryj8