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