How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner

#WebAssembly #GoogleSheets #JavaScript #WasmGC

The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript.

Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, on Chrome.

Michael Thomas is the Multiplatform Lead for Google Workspace and Thomas Steiner is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google. They join the podcast to tell the story of why and how Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC.

⌚Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction and Background
00:50 Interview

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