I started with reading a file.Now my code is inside Chrome | Jason Williams, Bloomberg

This talk explores the journey of a solo developer who built a JavaScript engine in Rust, highlighting the underlying mechanics such as tokenization, abstract syntax trees, and execution using real Rust code. The speaker, Jason Williams, a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP and the original author of Boa, details how he achieved an impressive 95.5% ECMAScript conformance, surpassing Safari. He emphasizes that a community-first approach, rather than sheer technical prowess, played a critical role in getting his code integrated into V8 and ultimately shipped in Chrome 144.