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by skhameneh 1028 days ago
Evan Wallace (former CTO) was a WASM pioneer IMO, he has plenty of excellent explorations and works shared on GitHub. I don't know Evan, but I've greatly appreciated stumbling into his works when exploring SharedArrayBuffer and what was once bleeding edge browser performance.

https://github.com/evanw
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imslavko 1028 days ago
Absolutely! Evan and the early team laid a strong foundation when Figma was ported to WASM + WebGL. It happened before my time at Figma, but check out these earlier posts from Evan and Jamie on the transition, perf testing, and graphs back from 2017-2018:

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-... https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-faster/

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chrysoprace 1028 days ago
Also the creator and maintainer of ESBuild!
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adamnemecek 1028 days ago
What do your mean? Did he contribute to the WASM standard?
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no_wizard 1028 days ago
Former?! When did Evan step down?
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fhub 1028 days ago
"I cofounded Figma in 2012 with Dylan Field and worked on Figma as CTO for the better part of a decade, leaving in 2021"

From https://madebyevan.com/figma/

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