The State Of WebAssembly With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

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.

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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