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78: The State of WebAssembly

78: The State of WebAssembly

The Web Platform Podcast · The Web Platform Podcast

March 9, 201656m 17s

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Show Notes

Sometimes you need the low level primitive building blocks that JavaScript can't handle. For that, the upcoming specification for WebAssembly or wasm is a new, portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web.

In this episode, we discuss what WebAssembly is, where the specification is headed, and the current goings on of the growing WebAssembly community.

Resources and Links On This Episode

JF Bastien @jfbastien, compiler engineer on ChromeLuke Wagner, research engineer at MozillaBrian Terlson, Program Manager - Chakra Team, ECMAScript Editor, MicrosoftGaurav Seth, Principle PM Manager, MicrosoftLouis Lafreniere, Principle Software Engineer, MicrosoftAbhijith Chatra, Software Engineer, Microsoft

Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)

Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)

Sharon (DiOrio) Shalno (@sharondio)