Alon Zakai

Created Emscripten&Binaryen, co-created WebAssembly. Google. Opinions my own, not my company's. Bluesky&Mastodon links in: he/they

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

(fyi, I am not active much on social media, but when I am it is mostly on Bluesky these days)

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

At this point most of Tech Twitter that I used to follow is on BlueSky.

Everything is much better there: No ads, good moderation, fast & smooth, better underlying tech, and now it also has most of the people I used to follow, both tech and otherwise.

Highly recommended!

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@BrendanEich @SamyRabih @FreyaHolmer @pcwalton Looks like the main demo site was taken down at some point. But there were various demos of other Unreal games in asm.js floating around, and more recently of wasm ports of UE4 games.

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

I have bluesky invites if anyone needs one.

It's much nicer over there.

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

By me on the V8 blog: "WasmGC: A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly"

https://t.co/SJxvm5QDDQ

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

I have some more Bluesky invites. Anyone need one?

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@kwlothrop @eric_sink (DM sent)

[Chrome for Developers @ChromiumDev]

📢 Heads up, WebAssembly fans: we have a new Wasm collection!

👉 https://t.co/f8AQmSCjvH 👈

This is your one-stop shop for everything #WebAssembly (#Wasm) and #Emscripten, curated by WebAssembly DevRel @tomayac!

[zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM) @bashorov]

🎉 Here it is!

▶️ Kotlin/Wasm on Kotlin Play!

Enjoy!
https://t.co/WZxovuDw0B

Kudos to our web team!
And special thanks to @ilia_goncharov for the implementation!

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

Interesting how missed optimization opportunities can still be found in very basic compiler code, even after many years:

https://t.co/TEtq13jDMh

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

Nice to see lots of work and interest in OCaml on WasmGC, and that wasm-opt and wasm-merge are helping there:

https://t.co/7Vgupq3ynL

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@amasad Thanks!

(Your achievements far outshine my own, of course. Nice work!)

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@amasad Fair, but I think he intentionally did *not* define the risk he's concerned with as "extinction" - in Definition 1 he says "catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of humans." And I think he made a strong case for that being possible (though not necessarily likely).

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@_shu Will get you one when I get that ability (looks like it's not immediate).

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

Bluesky has some problems, but it has huge potential, I think.

A lot of tech people I follow moved to Mastodon, but practically none of the non-tech (musicians, artists, activists, academics, etc). Bluesky is actually attracting some of those non-tech people, which is promising.

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@jntrnr Yeah, that can be annoying. I'm hoping it improves as the userbase grows.

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

I'm now also on Bluesky:

https://t.co/0tbT8QS056

(linked to from the usual https://t.co/T6wZvKLnKl)

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

@RReverser Yeah, exactly. And those all have big tradeoffs. So just sharing the memory seems to be the best thing for fast C++/C/Rust etc. since they just heavily assume a single memory space.

(But multi-memory is great for sandboxing code internally in specific cases.)

[Alon Zakai @kripken]

Binaryen has a new wasm-merge tool that can merge WebAssembly modules together:

https://t.co/sHxeaNfr5y

https://t.co/CQRGQKQnz3