Wasm Ecosystem Q&A

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WASM already has 618 opcodes total and exactly 256 SIMD opcodes, a surprising concrete count, and work focuses on debugging (DWARF limits and a debug-adapter approach), memory reclamation via the memory.discard proposal, and the component model that prevents exporting linear memory for stronger isolation. Embedded use favors small runtimes for easier deployment, browser ML is constrained by 32-bit address space and limited SIMD, and 64-bit, profiles, and component tooling are the practical gaps before broad 1.0 adoption.

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1. 0:00Wasm ecosystem Q&A intro
2. 3:13Wasm opcode trivia
3. 10:12Debugging WebAssembly applications
4. 15:13Future of Wasm 1.0
5. 18:02Wasm conferences
6. 22:50WebAssembly in frontend JavaScript applications
7. 27:07Canvas accessibility
8. 31:03Wasm for backend APIs
9. 32:49Wasm in embedded/edge
10. 37:45ML models in browser
11. 41:14Core vs component model
12. 43:22TypeScript compilation to WebAssembly
13. 46:53Wasm determinism & perf
14. 50:04Porting langs to Wasm
15. 54:16Wasm proposal process
16. 1:03:27Final Q&A

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