Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jake Champion about his work with Fastly and Polyfill, the difference between WASY and WASM, what Winter CG is, and what makes Fastly different.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
02:06 Who is Jake Champion?
Jake (@JakeDChampion)

JakeChampion on GitHub

04:31 How long as Polyfill been around?
06:11 What is Fastly?
Fastly

Polyfill

WASMTime

SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine

12:09 What are people running on the edge with Fastly?
16:29 What is Winter CG compliance?
Winter CG proposal

17:55 What about node API’s being in platforms
21:18 What is WASY vs WASM?
24:37 Who is Web Assembly for?
31:34 Is there anything WASM is not good for?
41:39 What makes the Fastly runtime different from others
Hono

Smashing Mag - Web Workers

Worker Tools

47:07 Supper Club questions
iTerm2

Zsh for Humans

50:26 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Luther TV Series

Forrest Gump

Shameless Plugs Fiddle on Fastly

js-compute

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Scott’s Twitter

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Scott on Bluesky

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