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