Join Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they discuss the latest news and recent developments in WebAssembly, such as Zig 0.140 and projects like running Linux inside a PDF file. This episode features special guest Nick Fitzgerald, a notable contributor to WasmTime and CraneLift, who explains the concept of garbage collection in programming. The discussion covers garbage collection in the context of WebAssembly, diving into algorithms, their implications, and challenges in implementation. They also touch upon the future of WebAssembly in embedded systems and the broader applications of these technologies in various programming languages like Java and Python. Don't miss this engaging and informative episode!Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed00:57 What's interesting this week in WebAssembly? 02:12 Linux PDF: A WebAssembly Feat03:29 Understanding Garbage Collection with guest Nick Fitzgerald05:20 Reference Counting vs Tracing Garbage CollectionA Unified Theory of Garbage Collection paper: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-bacon.pdf7:22 What's driving the push to get GC into WebAssembly right now?10:25 What makes Garbage Collection implementation so difficult?12:09 Challenges in Garbage Collection Implementation15:19 Are you bound by the language runtime GC or by the Wasm runtime?19:32 Challenges in Type Systems Implementation22:59 Object-Oriented Hierarchies and Python24:34 Garbage Collection Proposal Insights31:35 Will the end users have extra work?32:50 Can GC help with Ahead of time Compiling?35:11 Fuzz Testing and Bug Fixing36:05 Custom Page Size Proposal38:03 Future of Garbage Collection AlgorithmsDid you miss the WebAssembly Unleashed episode with Gilad Bracha? Check it out here:What WebAssembly can learn from JAVA’s history | Ep5 | WebAssembly Unleashed https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=S4sHWZeRqVIbCdn_For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octoReports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reportsMeet Your Hosts: Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/users/joel_moses/398372 Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/