In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Mozilla's Ryan Hunt, who's the champion of the string built-ins proposal. They first discuss Ryan's way into Mozilla and his role in the SpiderMonkey team, and then dive deep into the string built-ins proposal and some challenges and rabbit holes with it.

Resources: Ryan Hunt on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3Wxcfqb 

SpiderMonkey blog → https://goo.gle/3Ww8ReX 

WasmGC proposal → https://goo.gle/3Sz2CG7 

Google Sheets WasmGC → https://goo.gle/4foOXv7  

BrowserTech podcast episode with Row Zero → https://goo.gle/3SyfAUR 

String Built-ins proposal → https://goo.gle/3LPXzxw 

Potential other built-ins → https://goo.gle/4d445fL 

Lin Clark's post on calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly being finally fast → https://goo.gle/3WNoeRV 

The problems with `this` and operators like `===` → https://goo.gle/3WrWGA8 

Using built-ins → https://goo.gle/3LONEIk 

Polyfilling built-ins → https://goo.gle/4fpW4DJ 

Scheme Wasm compiler → https://goo.gle/3Syg6lL 

OCaml compiler → https://goo.gle/3A4Qs1B 

Compact impact section proposal → https://goo.gle/4d5rBZQ 

Compact impact section slides → https://goo.gle/4d7NU12 

Memory64 proposal → https://goo.gle/4fqmghr 

Seinfeld → https://goo.gle/3YyxpHb 

Frasier → https://goo.gle/46CiRYT 

Scrubs → https://goo.gle/3AiWhbu 

Culver's restaurants → https://goo.gle/3LLRyBZ 

Menards home improvement store → https://goo.gle/3WJpiWG  

Ryan on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3A9BSG4