CG, WG, W3C, Lively—Wasm standardization with Thomas Lively - WasmAssembly
In this episode of WasmAssembly, host Thomas Steiner welcomes Thomas Lively from Google, the new co-chair of the W3C WebAssembly Community Group. Taking over the role from past guest Deepti Gandluri (episode #2), we seize the opportunity to ask Lively the exact same three questions we posed to Deepti—listen back to compare their perspectives! In the second half, the two Thomases dive deep into the proposals Lively is personally championing, covering Custom Descriptors and JS Interop, and the highly-anticipated Shared-Everything Threads. Chapters: 0:00 - The Wasm team "Thomas" confusion 0:57 - Thomas' way into Google's Wasm team 4:10 - Wasm CG vs. Wasm WG 9:39 - Is Wasm standardization moving slowly? 17:58 - Wasm at Google and the Chrome team 22:33 - The Custom Descriptors and JS Interop proposal 35:02 - The Shared-Everything Threads proposal 43:28 - Wasm, but not Resources: Thomas Lively on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/45U8uRA WebAssembly Community Group → https://goo.gle/3K0qSj3 From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai → https://goo.gle/47zQTj9 CG, WG, W3C, Deepti—Wasm standardization with Deepti Gandluri → https://goo.gle/4ndWX5X Custom Descriptors and JS Interop → https://goo.gle/4ggStbY WebAssembly threads → https://goo.gle/45Z0kaI Shared-Everything Threads → https://goo.gle/47BnLYG Thomas Lively on Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4gcm2v8 Watch more WasmAssembly → https://goo.gle/WasmAssembly Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs #WebAssembly #Wasm#ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome Speaker: Thomas Steiner Products Mentioned: Web Assembly (Wasm), Chrome, WebAssembly for Chrome

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