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

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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