A deep dive into WebAssembly with Thomas Nattestad - WasmAssembly
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 #WebAssembly # #ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome Speaker: Thomas Steiner Products Mentioned: Web Assembly (Wasm), Chrome

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