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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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 Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry!

0:02.4

Who I'm starving?

0:04.2

Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.

0:08.1

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss' attempt to use human language to converse with

0:14.2

and pick the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was gonna be food.

0:18.7

So buckle up and grab that old f***ing handle.

0:21.7

Because this ride is going to get wild.

0:25.2

This is The Syntax Summer Club.

0:36.1

Welcome to Syntax.

0:37.9

Today we've got an awesome show for you today.

0:40.3

We have Jake Champion on who works at Fastly,

0:45.3

which is a, I'm not gonna say new, but it is a Edge Compute platform.

0:50.7

I'll talk about what that isn't just a second, as well as

0:53.2

he is the author or maintainer.

0:55.7

We'll let him explain it behind Paulie Phil I.O.

0:59.2

Excited to have Mom to talk about both of those things as well.

1:02.2

I think there's quite a bit of overlap between the two.

1:05.9

Hey Jake, thanks so much for coming on.

1:07.7

Thank you for having me on.

1:09.2

This is gonna be fun.

1:10.7

Yeah, definitely.

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