Alberto Schiabel (@jkomyno) is a software engineer at Prisma, speaker, consultant, and former startup co-founder.

In his diverse 10-year career, Alberto ranged from full-stack development with Node.js and React, to systems programming and scientific computing in C++. He mostly codes at the intersection of TypeScript, Rust, and WebAssembly nowadays.

He's interested in type-safe functional programming and cats.

Coping with JavaScript cross-Runtime Incompatibilities

As more engineers transition from Node.js to other JavaScript runtimes - like Bun, Cloudflare Workerd, and Vercel Edge -, an unsettling reality creeps in: apps are no longer guaranteed to work with the dependencies you're used to.

How can developers adapt to a landscape where popular database drivers and markdown rendering libraries may not function on their client's chosen platform? What can the open-source community do to ease this friction, both in the short and long term?

In this talk, Alberto will address these questions and share his first-hand experience refactoring libraries and projects to support Cloudflare Workers and Bun. Hopefully, this will save you a few long nights spent agonizing in front of the debugger!

At the end of the session, you'll also have the chance to weigh in: could these complexities ultimately lead to a more solid ecosystem overall?