Exploring JavaScript Ahead-of-time Compilation with Porffor | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join Joel Moses, Matthew Yacobucci, and guest-host Chris Fallin as they dive into the maturation of WebAssembly technologies and their implementation. Special guest Oliver Medhurst, a former Mozilla engineer, joins the conversation to talk about his project, Porffor, a unique compiler kit for JavaScript that allows ahead-of-time compilation to WebAssembly. The discussion covers the challenges and benefits of ahead-of-time compilation, performance aspects, and the importance of WebAssembly in diverse environments. Oliver also shares insights into building a JavaScript engine from scratch and the community's reaction to his project. Tune in for an in-depth look at the future of WebAssembly and its intersection with JavaScript.
Engage with Porffor:
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Read more about the recent development from Zig: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/
Creators and Guests
Host
Joel Moses
Distinguished Engineer & VP, Strategic Engineering at F5. Joel has over 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity and networking fields. Prior to joining F5, he designed large scale security and infrastructure architectures for consulting clients and served as the lead US Security and Infrastructure Architect for one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world. At F5, he is a founding member of the Office of the CTO, and is principally responsible for advanced research, intellectual property, proof-of-concepts, and strategic studies related to security, hardware, and cloud technologies. He holds several US patents related to encryption techniques.
Host
Matthew Yacobucci
Architect and Wasm enthusiast, Matt is an experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the distributed computing and networking industries. He's professional skilled in Linux, Go, Container Orchestration Systems, Concurrency, Agile Methodologies, and Lunch.
Guest
Chris Fallin
Senior Architect at F5, Chris is a compiler nerd, computer scientist, and software engineer. He has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon in compilers/program analysis. His prior experience is in systems, large-scale software engineering, and computer architecture / microarchitecture (industry and academic).
