The WASI Revolution: Luke Wagner on WebAssembly's Past, Present, and Future - WasmAssembly

06/24/24 • 69 min

In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Luke Wagner, who works at Fastly. You’ll hear them chat about Luke’s time at Mozilla, how he remembers the Wasm launch, the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the component model, his thoughts on where WebAssembly’s future lies, and much more.

Resources: Luke Wagner's Wasm announcement blog post for Mozilla → https://goo.gle/4bdxyT4 The Wasm polyfill prototype → https://goo.gle/4bdiPHF The PLDI 2017 paper → https://goo.gle/4cvJpg7 A WebAssembly milestone → https://goo.gle/4bcK455 V8's Wasm announcement → https://goo.gle/3VHIanw Edge's Wasm announcement → https://goo.gle/4cbbEAX The WebAssembly browser preview → https://goo.gle/4c912mk The magic number and the version field → https://goo.gle/45D4hjj The WebAssembly post-MVP future blog pos → https://goo.gle/45zcapQ WebAssembly performance patterns →https://goo.gle/4ce8qwE API Concerns with Structured Clone for Wasm Modules → https://goo.gle/3XCXZOH Formal description of serializing and deserializing a Module → https://goo.gle/4bdNowH Don't allow IndexedDB serialization of WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/4bj8OZo Normative: Support [Serializable] for WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/3z9Wjlv Cache support → https://goo.gle/3zd7pX7 WebAssembly developers → https://goo.gle/4cd9v7Q WebAssembly — Caching to HTML5 IndexedDB → https://goo.gle/4c9KlqB The Lucet → https://goo.gle/4evkwTF The Lucet and Wasmtime teams join forces → https://goo.gle/45IbsH1 Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla → https://goo.gle/3VD6Yg6 What is WebAssembly? → https://goo.gle/3xtnGGK Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser → https://goo.gle/4b9akxi Wasmtime—A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3xiVpTr How Lucet and Wasmtime make a stronger compiler, together → https://goo.gle/3RCtULo WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser → https://goo.gle/4eMwyID WASI 0.2 Launched → https://goo.gle/3z8qA4a WebAssembly System Interface → https://goo.gle/4cxRGjA WASI proposals → https://goo.gle/3VD7xXg WASI HTTP → https://goo.gle/3VAiJ75 The wit format → https://goo.gle/3VxVHO9 What color is your function? → https://goo.gle/3KSVG2n A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model → https://goo.gle/3XxJdIY Revolutions podcast → https://goo.gle/3xgPdve Luke Wagner on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3VyqgmP Luke Wagner on X → https://goo.gle/3KWz40U

#WebAssembly #Wasm #WASI

Speaker: Thomas Steiner

#WebAssembly #Wasm #WASI

Speaker: Thomas Steiner

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CG, WG, W3C, Deepti—Wasm standardization with Deepti Gandluri - WasmAssembly

In this episode, Tom interviews Deepti Gandluri, the Chair of the WebAssembly Community Group at the W3C. You will hear about the difference between the W3C WebAssembly Community Group and Working Group, how Wasm is standardized, how Deepti got into WebAssembly, and the challenges the WebAssembly team at Google faces being part of the Chrome team. Deepti also discusses her favorite Wasm features, how the Community Group might react to a browser-specific proposal, how WASI might work given browser security constraints, and new Wasm features she's excited about in the context of AI.

Resources: Episode 1 with Alon Zakai → https://goo.gle/4bpFxwV Deepti, Chair of the Community Group: → https://goo.gle/3yBtjmm Deepti, member of the Working Group → https://goo.gle/3K8NKJU WebAssembly Summit opening keynote → https://goo.gle/3WVyQP7 WebAssembly Community Group → https://goo.gle/3KaOrCM WebAssembly Working Group → https://goo.gle/3VbI48B WebAssembly W3C Process GitHub → https://goo.gle/3Kd5p3a TC39 process document → https://goo.gle/4bL3fno File System Access API → https://goo.gle/3UT5uOE Web Serial API → https://goo.gle/3WP92nq V8 Wasm source code in Chromium → https://goo.gle/4bNiUTa WebAssembly active proposals → https://goo.gle/44TBd72 WebAssembly inactive proposals → https://goo.gle/4btU6je Wasm feature detection proposal → https://goo.gle/3K9E95B JavaScript promise integration proposal → https://goo.gle/3yxfkOM JavaScript promise integration origin trial proposal → https://goo.gle/4aA8Mff WasmGC proposal → https://goo.gle/4asI6gI WasmGC → https://goo.gle/3WR7GZw WASI file system → https://goo.gle/3ylByD1 Stringref proposal → https://goo.gle/4awO68b Built-in Strings proposal → https://goo.gle/3wJ6Fbg Deepti's Google I/O talk → https://goo.gle/4boQOOk Relaxed SIMD proposal → https://goo.gle/4bNATss Half precision (FP16) proposal → https://goo.gle/3wA9rjd Memory64 proposal → https://goo.gle/3wA9rjd

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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