WebAssembly
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- Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
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- Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kirkos: Quadratic runs in browser WebAssembly and renders via WebGL
“Everything in Quadratic is running in WebAssembly in the browser, and then the whole sheet is drawn in WebGL.”
Masad's team was among the first to run multi-language WASM in browser
“At the time, it was it was just a library and there wasn't anyone using it, and so we were, like, the first to kind of use it to run all these programs in the browser, and, you know, put it up on GitHub, and went viral, and Hacker News, and a bunch of other pl…”
Simons: In-browser dev environments eliminate server latency and cloud compute costs
“It's very complicated and expensive to typically do this if you're going to use servers. So it's very valuable to like do it in the browser because it's extremely fast. There's no latency. You're not paying by the minute, you know, for some cloud.”
Simons: StackBlitz Browser OS Clocks In at One Megabyte or Less
“These Docker two awesome things will give you an image that's like, oh, 60 to a hundred meg, you know, maybe more, you know. And our OS, you know, kind of clocks in, I think we're in like a, maybe, maybe a megabyte or less or something like that.”
SurrealDB will include WebAssembly plugins to enable custom logic and functions
“With WebAssembly plugins, which will be coming for our version one, that will enable all users to run their own custom logic and custom functions.”