In this episode of WasmAssembly, host Thomas Steiner welcomes Thomas Lively from Google, the new co-chair of the W3C WebAssembly Community Group. Taking over the role from past guest Deepti Gandluri (episode #2), we seize the opportunity to ask Lively the exact same three questions we posed to Deepti—listen back to compare their perspectives! In the second half, the two Thomases dive deep into the proposals Lively is personally championing, covering Custom Descriptors and JS Interop, and the highly-anticipated Shared-Everything Threads.

Chapters:

0:00 - The Wasm team "Thomas" confusion

0:57 - Thomas' way into Google's Wasm team

4:10 - Wasm CG vs. Wasm WG

9:39 - Is Wasm standardization moving slowly?

17:58 - Wasm at Google and the Chrome team

22:33 - The Custom Descriptors and JS Interop proposal

35:02 - The Shared-Everything Threads proposal

43:28 - Wasm, but not

Resources:

• Thomas Lively on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/45U8uRA

• WebAssembly Community Group → https://goo.gle/3K0qSj3

• From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai → https://goo.gle/47zQTj9

• CG, WG, W3C, Deepti—Wasm standardization with Deepti Gandluri → https://goo.gle/4ndWX5X

• Custom Descriptors and JS Interop → https://goo.gle/4ggStbY

• WebAssembly threads →​​ https://goo.gle/45Z0kaI

• Shared-Everything Threads → https://goo.gle/47BnLYG

• Thomas Lively on Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4gcm2v8