String built-ins with Mozilla's Ryan Hunt - WasmAssembly

Опубликовано 5 августа 2024, 14:00

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 → goo.gle/3Wxcfqb
SpiderMonkey blog → goo.gle/3Ww8ReX
WasmGC proposal → goo.gle/3Sz2CG7
Google Sheets WasmGC → goo.gle/4foOXv7
BrowserTech podcast episode with Row Zero → goo.gle/3SyfAUR
String Built-ins proposal → goo.gle/3LPXzxw
Potential other built-ins → goo.gle/4d445fL
Lin Clark's post on calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly being finally fast → goo.gle/3WNoeRV
The problems with `this` and operators like `===` → goo.gle/3WrWGA8
Using built-ins → goo.gle/3LONEIk
Polyfilling built-ins → goo.gle/4fpW4DJ
Scheme Wasm compiler → goo.gle/3Syg6lL
OCaml compiler → goo.gle/3A4Qs1B
Compact impact section proposal → goo.gle/4d5rBZQ
Compact impact section slides → goo.gle/4d7NU12
Memory64 proposal → goo.gle/4fqmghr
Seinfeld → goo.gle/3YyxpHb
Frasier → goo.gle/46CiRYT
Scrubs → goo.gle/3AiWhbu
Culver's restaurants → goo.gle/3LLRyBZ
Menards home improvement store → goo.gle/3WJpiWG
Ryan on GitHub → goo.gle/3A9BSG4

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#WebAssembly #Wasm #Strings #StringBuiltins #Standardization

Speaker: Thomas Steiner