Yulia Startsev from Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey team joins Jerod & Feross to talk compilers, going back to get your Master’s, making decisions as a group, process of shepherding a feature through TC39, how Firefox actually works, and LavaMoats. Yes, LavaMoats.

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Featuring:

• Yulia Startsev – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• SpiderMonkey’s website
• The Monkey posters
• TC39 Discourse
• Argumentation theory
• TC39 Realms Proposal
• LavaMoat
• Compartments proposal
• Yulia’s Twitch stream

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