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Neither of them had ownership of the project, so neither of them were responsible for the sale or benefited from it.

They both simply dedicated a lot of time, care and skill to the project. It's really a shame to see what they spent so much time building and maintaining now being used as a platform to exploit people. I'm sure its extremely disappointing to both of them.

With the more recent host bindings proposal[1], direct DOM access was decoupled from GC. This is expected to move much more quickly.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...

The prioritization parts of Quantum DOM have landed. There is some work around preemption that still needs to happen. We should have a post talking about this coming out in the next few weeks.

Thank you :) I use Photoshop on a Wacom Cintiq.

I created my own font based on my handwriting. It's called codecartoons. I also have a more Marker Felt-ish one called Clarker Felt.

Yes, that was me :) I've created a lot of cartoons around things in the React ecosystem. I've also done cartoons on WebAssembly and SharedArrayBuffer/Atomics.

No, I created Code Cartoons in my spare time. After I worked at Mozilla for a while, I pitched the idea of me making Code Cartoons explaining the things we were developing in Emerging Technologies. My (current) boss was super into the idea.

I talked more about this on a recently recorded Hanselminutes podcast. It should come out soon.

A tool called Emscripten provides a runtime environment. You can include things from that, like a virtual filesystem. That said, a lot of WebAssembly code doesn't have a dependency on file APIs. For example, you can check out the web-dsp project: https://github.com/shamadee/web-dsp

If you're looking for an intro, I wrote a series of posts on WebAssembly (there are 5 links at the bottom of this intro): https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webasse...