Chats with Kent C. Dodds The State Of WebAssembly With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit
Aug 5, 2019
36:07
Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit from Mozilla discuss where WebAssembly came from and where it's going. WebAssembly was inspired by asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that could be compiled from a language such as C++. WebAssembly can take the idea further since it doesn't have the same limitations that JavaScript does.
Lin and Till talk about why even a front-end developer would use WebAssembly, which leads to a discussion on one of the primary use cases of WebAssembly, performance optimization. They also get into the nitty-gritty of WASI, or the WebAssembly System Interface, which allows WebAssembly to be used outside of the browser.
Resources
- Lin Clark - Standardizing WASI: a system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
- Lin Clark - A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
- Rust and WebAssembly Book
Guest: Lin Clark
- GitHub: @linclark
- Twitter: @linclark
- Website: code-cartoons.com
- Mozilla Hacks: @lclarkmozilla-com
Guest: Till Schneidereit
- Twitter: @tschneidereit
- Github: @tschneidereit
Host: Kent C. Dodds
- Website: kentcdodds.com
- Twitter: @kentcdodds
- GitHub: @kentcdodds
- YouTube: Kent C. Dodds
- Epic React: epicreact.dev