The Yak Shave

6: The Podcast After the Last Podcast

Episode Summary

This week Sean is joined by former cohost Derek Prior. After a brief reflection on the end of The Bike Shed, we discuss WebAssembly and what it means for the future of the web as well as native sandboxing. Finally, we catch up on what Derek has been doing since leaving The Bike Shed.

Episode Notes

This week Sean is joined by former cohost Derek Prior. After a brief reflection on the end of The Bike Shed, we discuss WebAssembly and what it means for the future of the web as well as native sandboxing. Finally, we catch up on what Derek has been doing since leaving The Bike Shed.

Corrections from this episode:

• Emscripten and the LLVM backend were mixed up. Emscripten is not part of LLVM, and Rust moved from Emscripten to the LLVM backend.
• Virtually every time Sean said "unprivileged" he meant to say "privileged"

Show notes:

• WebAssembly
• Asm.js
• Parcel
• Meltdown and Spectre
• Lua
• Rust
• Elm
• Exploring how Elm can target WebAssembly
• Shopify Careers