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Alon Zakai @kripken

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

Joined October 2009
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Alon Zakai@kripken
27 Jun 2024
(fyi, I am not active much on social media, but when I am it is mostly on Bluesky these days)
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Alon Zakai@kripken
8 Nov 2024
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!
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Alon Zakai@kripken
3 Feb 2024
I have bluesky invites if anyone needs one. It's much nicer over there.
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Alon Zakai@kripken
2 Nov 2023
By me on the V8 blog: "WasmGC: A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly" v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting

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Alon Zakai@kripken
27 Sep 2023
I have some more Bluesky invites. Anyone need one?
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Alon Zakai retweeted
Chrome for Developers
@ChromiumDev
29 Jun 2023
📢 Heads up, WebAssembly fans: we have a new Wasm collection! 👉 web.dev/wasm 👈 This is your one-stop shop for everything #WebAssembly (#Wasm) and #Emscripten, curated by WebAssembly DevRel @tomayac!

WebAssembly  |  web.dev

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Alon Zakai retweeted
zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM)@bashorov
28 Jun 2023
🎉 Here it is! ▶️ Kotlin/Wasm on Kotlin Play! Enjoy! pl.kotl.in/yfXqH6yqX Kudos to our web team! And special thanks to @ilia_goncharov for the implementation!
zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM)@bashorov
27 Jun 2023
Well, Kotlin/Wasm support at play.kotl.in is coming... Stay tuned! 📻
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Alon Zakai@kripken
13 Jun 2023
Interesting how missed optimization opportunities can still be found in very basic compiler code, even after many years: github.com/WebAssembly/binar…

EffectAnalyzer: Assume we execute the two things whose effects we compare by kripken · Pull Request...

EffectAnalyzer::canReorder/invalidate now assume that the things from whom we generated the effects both execute. If they both execute then we can do more work in TrapsNeverHappen mode, since we ca...

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Alon Zakai@kripken
31 May 2023
Nice to see lots of work and interest in OCaml on WasmGC, and that wasm-opt and wasm-merge are helping there: github.com/WebAssembly/binar…

Preserve imports when copying module items by vouillon · Pull Request #5743 · WebAssembly/binaryen

The import information of tags and memories were not preserved. As a consequence, wasm-merge were not merging exported and imported tags. For instance, consider this file export.wat: (module (ta...

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Alon Zakai@kripken
29 May 2023
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.
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Alon Zakai@kripken
28 May 2023
I'm now also on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/azakai.bsky… (linked to from the usual kripken.github.io/blog/about…)
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Alon Zakai@kripken
16 May 2023
Binaryen has a new wasm-merge tool that can merge WebAssembly modules together: github.com/WebAssembly/binar… github.com/WebAssembly/binar…

GitHub - WebAssembly/binaryen: Optimizer and compiler/toolchain library for WebAssembly

Optimizer and compiler/toolchain library for WebAssembly - WebAssembly/binaryen

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Happy to share that RLBox (rlbox.dev/) now uses upstream wasm2c (github.com/WebAssembly/wabt), vs. a custom fork of wasm2c to sandbox buggy libraries the Firefox browser (hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/we…) @deiandelmars @hovav @MikeHommey @bhology @sbc100 @kripken @keithwinstein
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Alon Zakai@kripken
12 May 2023
I'd like to leave Twitter, but while most tech people I follow are on Mastodon, almost none of the non-tech people are. Maybe that will change with Bluesky? (I don't have access yet.)
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Alon Zakai retweeted
Chrome for Developers
@ChromiumDev
10 May 2023
Just announced at #GoogleIO: WebAssemblyGC, Baseline, Interaction to Next Paint (INP), Angular v16, and more. Find out what's new in the web ↓ goo.gle/chrome-at-io23

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zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM)@bashorov
18 Apr 2023
🍒One more thing, and now it is ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️🟩🟩⬜️⬜️🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 3K - x13 smaller than with 1.8.20🚀 In the upcoming 1.9.0 #Kotlin #WebAssembly ❤️🔁🔔
zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM)@bashorov
18 Apr 2023
2nd part of size-related optimizations in Kotlin/Wasm is landed \o/ And now, on the same example, the wasm file is 🥁🥁🥁 10 times smaller compared to 1.8.20 and down to ~4.5K And in addition x2 with Brotli -- 2K 🤯 Stay tuned! 📻 #Kotlin #WebAssembly ❤️🔁🔔
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Thomas Nattestad@fractorious
4 Apr 2023
Just published our vision for how WebAssembly is changing how new web functionality can be delivered to developers! blog.chromium.org/2023/04/ho…

How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality

WebAssembly is fundamentally changing how new developer capabilities and functionality can be created on the web. In order to maintain brows...

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zalim (kotlin wasm compiler webassembly VM)@bashorov
14 Apr 2023
It is also a great step forward for Wasm Community since this version of @googlechrome includes an Original Trial for #WebAssembly GC.🚀 So you can use WasmGC on your site without any hassle for users. It just works! 🤯 Register on bit.ly/tryWasmGC And try Wasm GC!

Chrome DevTools@ChromeDevTools
14 Apr 2023
Have you upgraded to Chrome 112? Follow @jecfish to find out JavaScript debugging, CSS and testing improvements in DevTools! 🎥 youtu.be/CrSmjooOEiE 📜 developer.chrome.com/blog/ne…
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Corentin Wallez@DaKangz
6 Apr 2023
This feels unreal! After more than 6 years working on WebGPU, it's getting released in Chromium 113, in stable and without flags! It only took a bit longer than the 2 year adventure we initially thought it would be 😅 Read more about it here developer.chrome.com/blog/we…

Chrome ships WebGPU  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

The Chrome team ships WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.

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