A promising feature: JavaScript Promise Integration with Francis McCabe - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, Thomas Steiner chats with Francis McCabe from Google, who's the champion of the JavaScript Promise Integration and the Stack Switching proposals. They go from talking about synchronous assumptions in code over to discussing the JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) proposal and how to use it in practice, its performance implications, and how to use it in practice. After exploring a neat side effect of JSPI, namely lazy loading, the fall into the rabbit hole of comparing JSPI to the upcoming ES module integration of Wasm. Finally, Francis gives an overview of his other early stage Stack Switching proposal.
Resources: The Paper introducing Go! → https://goo.gle/3AiyCrY The JSPI proposal → https://goo.gle/3yxfkOM JSPI entering origin trial → https://goo.gle/4cjprok JSPI origin trial → https://goo.gle/4cmjxD4 Introducing JSPI → https://goo.gle/3YEPT90 The new JSPI API → https://goo.gle/4cie1RN The JSPI API change → https://goo.gle/4cie1RN Code example → https://goo.gle/3Arlq3P Stack-Switching Proposal for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3Ar2KRM The Vivant series → https://goo.gle/46Htp97
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