In this episode, WasmAssembly host, Thomas Steiner, chats with Thomas Nattestad, Product Manager on the Google Chrome team. Learn about Chrome's investment in WebAssembly, WebAssembly caching and if there's a solution for cross-origin caching, canvas-rendered apps, and Thomas' take on WebAssembly DOM access and whether WebAssembly will replace JavaScript. Finally, the two talk about the Wasm ES module integration and what this means for bundlers.
Chapters:
0:00 - The three people named Thomas on Google's Wasm team
2:00 - Why does Google invest in WebAssembly?
6:22 - Thomas' way into WebAssembly
11:44 - Being a Product Manager on the Chrome team for Wasm
14:09 - Wasm DOM access and Wasm as a JS replacement?
17:06 - Wasm for shared business
19:32 - Canvas-rendered Wasm apps
24:09 - Where should you start when building an app
30:44 - Wasm with AI startups
35:20 - Caching Wasm files
40:26 - Bundlers and WebAssembly
45:25 - Wasm, but not
Resources:
Thomas' BlinkOn 9 talk → https://goo.gle/4fkaDaU
Thomas' SFHTML5 talk "What, Why, and How to WebAssembly?": https://goo.gle/3NJw8WM (Sep 29, 2018)
Thomas wishing for VB6 for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3NCGZBY May 30, 2019)
VB.NET for Wasm: https://goo.gle/3AeH5N6 (Apr 13, 2019)
WebAssembly at Google WasmCon talk: https://goo.gle/4fl3Ai7
Flutter renderers → https://goo.gle/3AbAJy6
Qt for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3NGrTeG
Flutter support for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3BWT96a
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform → https://goo.gle/48D1jNv
Source phase imports proposal → https://goo.gle/3C2SvEo
WebAssembly ES module integration proposal → https://goo.gle/3C8wd3L
Angular ES module exploration → https://goo.gle/40ip4YM
Watch more WasmAssembly → https://goo.gle/WasmAssembly
Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs
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Speaker: Thomas Steiner
Products Mentioned: Web Assembly (Wasm), Chrome