Alon Zakai

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

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!

@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.

@SamyRabih @FreyaHolmer Cc'ing @pcwalton @kripken in case they know.

so, what's the allocation friendly way to return two numbers in js? (without passing in an existing array/object to populate) I'm worried `return new Vec2(x,y);` will put pressure on the GC every frame (and yes, I miss stack allocated structs from C# ;-; )

I have bluesky invites if anyone needs one. It's much nicer over there.

By me on the V8 blog: "WasmGC: A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly" v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-p…

I have some more Bluesky invites. Anyone need one?

@kwlothrop @eric_sink (DM sent)

📢 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!

🎉 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!

Interesting how missed optimization opportunities can still be found in very basic compiler code, even after many years: github.com/WebAssembly/bi…

Nice to see lots of work and interest in OCaml on WasmGC, and that wasm-opt and wasm-merge are helping there: #issuecomment-1570472276" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/WebAssembly/bi…

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

@kripken Also great to hear from you Alon. Congrats on how far you’ve taken emscripten and wasm

I read long posts by respectable people fully expecting to be convinced on how AI kills everyone…. But it’s always disappointing. This one by Yoshua Bengio starts out very rigorous with claims and arguments but then makes a massive jump to “clearly catastrophic outcomes.” wat!!!

@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).

@kripken Found it unconvincing because we have almost no examples of corporate genocide and corporation as AI is tenuous at best. Still if granted impossible to imagine “extinction” level event.

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

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.

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

I'm now also on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/azakai… (linked to from the usual kripken.github.io/blog/about/)

@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.)

Binaryen has a new wasm-merge tool that can merge WebAssembly modules together: #wasm-merge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/WebAssembly/bi… github.com/WebAssembly/bi…