String built-ins with Mozilla’s Ryan Hunt - WasmAssembly (Дата оригинальной публикации: )
In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Mozilla’s Ryan Hunt, who’s the champion of the string built-ins proposal. They first discuss Ryan’s way into Mozilla and his role in the SpiderMonkey team, and then dive deep into the string built-ins proposal and some challenges and rabbit holes with it.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:55 - The SpiderMonkey team at Mozilla
5:01 - Ryan’s most exciting WasmGC app
7:32 - Ryan’s way into the WebAssembly world
11:12 - What are string built-ins
16:56 - The confusing concept of strings
20:32 - Calling into JavaScript from WasmAssembly
22:53 - The next built-in candidate
25:02 - String built-in and a language’s native implementation of strings
26:53 - JavaScript glue code
34:26 - The challenges with ‘this; and operators like `===`
38:06 - Actually using string built-ins
42:28 - Runtimes without a JavaScript engine and polyfilling
45:04 - Why’s Mozilla championing string built-ins
49:03 - The compact imports proposal
50:11 - Can we soft-cut the cough? Not a big deal if not.
54:15 - The memory 65 proposal
56:03 - Wasm, but not
Resources:
Ryan Hunt on LinkedIn →
SpiderMonkey blog →
WasmGC proposal →
Google Sheets WasmGC →
BrowserTech podcast episode with Row Zero →
String Built-ins proposal →
Potential other built-ins →
Lin Clark’s post on calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly being finally fast →
The problems with `this` and operators like `===` →
Using built-ins →
Polyfilling built-ins →
Scheme Wasm compiler →
OCaml compiler →
Compact impact section proposal →
Compact impact section slides →
Memory64 proposal →
Seinfeld →
Frasier →
Scrubs →
Culver’s restaurants →
Menards home improvement store →
Ryan on GitHub →
Watch more WasmAssembly →
Subscribe to Chrome for Developers →
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Speaker: Thomas Steiner
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