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#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar

Feb 27, 2023

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Introduction

5min

The Importance of JavaScript in the Web

4min

Wasm: A New Language for JavaScript

2min

How WebAssembly Was Shoehorned Into the JavaScript World

3min

How to Interoperate With JavaScript

2min

How to Pass Objects Between Languages Without Messing Up Memory Allocation

2min

The Relationship Between JavaScript, the Interpreter, and V8

4min

JavaScript API: How to Run Multiple Wasm Files

3min

The Wasm Component Model and the JavaScript Ecosystem

2min

10.

Container D Announces Its Wasm Support

4min

11.

Wasm: A Multi-Platform Containerization Platform

2min

12.

The Future of Web APIs

4min

13.

The Future of Java

5min

14.

Oracle's Interest in Wasm

3min

15.

Interop: How JavaScript and Workers Work Together

2min

16.

Kotlin Wasm and the Web

3min

17.

The Benefits of Wasm

3min

18.

JavaScript and Kotlin APIs in Wasm

4min

19.

The Future of WebAssembly

2min

20.

The Year of Linux Desktop

3min

WebAssembly (Wasm) finds a way for the web to move forward to near-native performance while avoiding the limitations of JavaScript. In this episode we chat with Vivek Sekhar, a product manager on the Chrome team, about all the Wasm things and how they relate to a better foundation for cross-platform, high performance apps, in the browser, on the cloud, and maybe just everywhere.

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