New Invited Expert: Thomas Ballinger

[thomasballinger]

• Name: Thomas Ballinger
• Pronouns: he/him
• Affiliation: Convex Inc. (convex.dev)
• Reason for becoming an invited expert: Targeting WinterCG compliance! (or characterizing non-compliance)
• Matrix username: @ballingt:matrix.org

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• I claim that I have filled Ecma's Invited Expert form to participate in TC55.

[thomasballinger]

Hi all, I used to watch some meeting recordings back when I could find them.

Convex is a reactive database that runs JavaScript UDFs in a V8-based runtime that aims for WinterCG compliance/compat/familarity. The version of the runtime that DB queries are written in is ~deterministic, so disables e.g. fetch() and uses e.g seeded Math.random(). The more general version does the more familiar serverless JS function execution.

I chatted with Oliver a while back about tests suites and measuring compliance. I'm curious to hear discussion and interested in helping with test suite sorts of things.