WasmAssembly
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a safe, portable, low-level code format designed for efficient execution and compact representation. In this show, Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, chats with experts from the community about the past, present, and future developments in WebAssembly.
Episodes
Scala.js to Wasm—Exploring the Wasm backend for Scala.js with Sébastien Doeraene
The JVM-to-Web journey continues! In this episode, Thomas Steiner welcomes the original author of Scala.js, Sébastien Doeraene, to discuss the major, experimental leap to WebAssembly. You'll learn why the team decided to target Wasm now and how it complements the existing JavaScript emission. This episode offers a technical deep-dive into how Scala's powerful, nominal type system maps its objects
Kotlin/Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
Join WasmAssembly host Thomas Steiner for a deep dive into the world of Kotlin/Wasm with Zalim Bashorov from JetBrains! This episode of WasmAssembly explores how Kotlin, known for being concise, multiplatform, and fun, became the recommended language for Android, and why JetBrains decided to expand its reach to WebAssembly. They discuss how people are currently using Kotlin on the Web, the power o
WebAssembly from the Ground Up with Patrick Dubroy and Mariano Guerra
Get ready for WasmAssembly episode 16! Host Thomas Steiner sits down with Patrick Dubroy and Mariano Guerra, authors of the ebook "WebAssembly from the Ground Up." Discover how they're teaching Wasm by building a compiler in JavaScript, why writing WebAssembly by hand is crucial, and their thoughts on the future of compiler education. Tune in to learn about Ohm, the surprising omission of WAT, and
CG, WG, W3C, Lively—Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively - WasmAssembly
In this episode of WasmAssembly, host Thomas Steiner welcomes Thomas Lively from Google, the new co-chair of the W3C WebAssembly Community Group. Taking over the role from past guest Deepti Gandluri (episode #2), we seize the opportunity to ask Lively the exact same three questions we posed to Deepti—listen back to compare their perspectives! In the second half, the two Thomases dive deep into th
Dart, Flutter, and WasmGC with Ömer Ağacan and Martin Kustermann
In this episode of WasmAssembly, your host Thomas Steiner is joined by Ömer Ağacan and Martin Kustermann from the Dart team at Google. They explore Dart, the language behind Flutter, and how Dart nearly landed in V8 alongside JavaScript, and why Flutter doubled down on Dart and WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC). Ömer and Martin then share insights on Dart's performance leap from dart2js to d
Enabling in-browser scientific computing with Wasm: David Kircos of Quadratic
On this WasmAssembly podcast episode, host Thomas Steiner speaks with David Kircos from Quadratic. They discuss how Quadratic's spreadsheet utilizes WebAssembly to enable scientific computing directly in the browser, leveraging tools like Pyodide, pandas, and numpy. The conversation also covers practical challenges such as bundling large-scale Wasm applications, exploring browser limitations, and
Wasm on feature phones with Cloud Phone's Thomas Barrasso
Feature phones? Yes, they still make them. And they run Wasm! In this WasmAssembly podcast, Thomas Steiner hosts Thomas Barrasso from CloudMosa to talk about the Cloud Phone platform and what it takes to run WebAssembly on tiny feature phones by streaming Web apps from a remote server that runs Chromium. Resources: Thomas Barrasso on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3Fxbvwg CloudMosa (Puffin) → ht
WebGPU and wasi-gfx with renderlet
In this WasmAssembly podcast episode, Sean Isom and Mendy Berger from renderlet join host Thomas Steiner. Discover renderlet, a WebAssembly framework for writing graphics code that runs on any platform. Resources: Mendy Berger on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/4b1y205 Sean Isom on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/4hyO8Rb Renderlet → https://goo.gle/3QsfjRy renderlet Wasm I/O talk → https://goo.g
Protecting apps with Arcjet through WebAssembly
WebAssembly is known for its speed and security, but can it be applied to enhance application security as a whole? Join Arcjet's CEO David Mytton and host Thomas Steiner on WasmAssembly as they delve into Arcjet's innovative use of Wasm for crucial security functions like bot detection, rate limiting, and data redaction, providing developers with a powerful yet manageable security toolkit. Resour
Taking Fermyon's Spin for a spin with Thorsten Hans
Join Thomas Steiner as he chats with Thorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, about the exciting world of WebAssembly serverless functions and microservices with the Spin framework. Discover how Spin uses WebAssembly for lightning-fast cold starts and great portability, and explore the advantages of building microservice applications with Spin's diverse language support. Thorsten and Thoma
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 Ex
A deep dive into WebAssembly with Thomas Nattestad - WasmAssembly
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 mo
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. Whil
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 pro
A promising feature: JavaScript Promise Integration with Francis McCabe - WasmAssembly
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
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/3Ww8R
The WASI Revolution: Luke Wagner on WebAssembly's Past, Present, and Future - WasmAssembly
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 poly
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,
From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai - WasmAssembly
Learn about some early WebAssembly history from one of the co-creators of Wasm, Alon Zakai! Follow along how Alon explains how we came from Native Client to asm.js and then finally to WebAssembly, and explore some interesting historical and present day sidetracks on the way. Resources: Alon Zakai: Homepage → https://goo.gle/3vVaHgi / (has links to all the social profiles, too) LinkedIn profile
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