Interview of Mark Rendle

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JavaScript is widely useful but has critical runtime flaws like floating point math that break finance calculations and huge ecosystem fragility; compiling math or performance code from languages with proper types into WebAssembly fixes those bugs and lets npm host real, correct libraries. Concrete tools and milestones include WASI 0.2 for filesystem and network components, compiling decimal types via Rust/C/Java to wasm, faster C/C++ Sass builds, and the prospect of Kubernetes running Wasm binaries without OCI images enabling cross‑platform native speed.

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1. 0:00Welcome to Mark Rendle
2. 0:55JavaScript: terrible and essential
3. 2:21Fixing JavaScript’s flaws
4. 3:26WebAssembly vs JavaScript limits
5. 6:36WASI and its ecosystem
6. 8:24JavaScript flaws to WebAssembly
7. 9:29Getting started with WebAssembly

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