Programming Throwdown

Summary:What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.Notes:00:00:16 Introduction00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?00:27:30 The developer experience00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions00:36:35 Rollbar00:41:08 Compiler linking00:49:27 wasmCloud00:54:21 Decoupling clouds01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic01:13:03 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Companies: Cosmonic Website: https://cosmonic.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/ People: Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/ Sponsor: Rollbar W