Notices by Alex Bradbury (asb@fosstodon.org)

I'm honoured to have been selected for the Software Contributor Award by the RISC-V International Board of Directors. I recently realised I've been working with RISC-V in some way for 10 years now (after a trip to Krste's group in Berkeley back in May 2014) - here's to another 10!

@inthehands yes primarily binary size

@inthehands the doc notes that the Swift runtime and stdlib is 5MB right now - so the work mentioned to produce smaller more minimal binaries would help a lot. You're right that avoiding heap allocation doesn't seem at all necessary in the wasm context.

TIL: Swift has a vision for targeting embedded platforms https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-a-vision-for-embedded-swift/68067

It's not mentioned at all in the doc, but work in this area would make a _huge_ difference for the viability of Swift targeting Wasm.