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A Community Group for Web-interoperable JavaScript runtimes

May 9, 2022James M Snell
A Community Group for Web-interoperable JavaScript runtimes
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This post announces the establishment of the Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group (WinterCG), co-founded by Cloudflare, Vercel, and Shopify. It highlights the need for standardized web APIs in non-browser JavaScript environments like Cloudflare Workers, Node.js, and Deno, to improve developer code portability and address the limitations of browser-centric standards. The post details the group's goals, including defining a 'Minimum Common Web API' and working on specifications for Web Cryptography Streams and a subset of fetch() for servers, all aimed at maximizing interoperability across these environments.

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