WasmAssembly

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WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm, a contraction of "WebAssembly", not an acronym, hence not using all-caps) is a safe, portable, low-level code format designed for efficient execution and compact representation. An assembly is a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose. In this show with the whimsical name WasmAssembly (get it?), Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, chats with experts from the community about the past, present, and future developments happening in the world of WebAssembly.

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WasmAssembly

Episodes (19)

Jan 5th Scala.js to Wasm—Exploring the Wasm backend for Scala.js with Sébastien Doeraene
Nov 25, 2025 Kotlin/Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
Oct 20, 2025 WebAssembly from the Ground Up with Patrick Dubroy and Mariano Guerra

WasmAssembly

Jan 5, 2026
1¼ hours
91 MB

The JVM-to-Web journey continues! In this episode, Thomas Steiner welcomes the original author of Scala.js, Sébastien Doeraene, to discuss the major, experimental leap to WebAssembly. You'll learn why the team decided to target Wasm now and how it complements the existing JavaScript emission. This episode offers a technical deep-dive into how Scala's powerful, nominal type system maps its objects and classes onto Wasm GC, and examines the critical details of interoperability, including what happens when a Scala object crosses the boundary to a JavaScript function. Finally, Sébastien covers the current status of the Wasm ecosystem for Sc...

WasmAssembly

Scala.js to Wasm—Exploring the Wasm backend for Scala.js with Sébastien Doeraene

Google

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