Rikito Taniguchi

Rikito Taniguchi

Scala Compiler Engineer

VirtusLab

Rikito Taniguchi is a Scala compiler engineer at VirtusLab, working on Scala 3 and bringing Scala to WebAssembly. He is passionate about compilers and programming language theory, and spends his free time bouldering and playing video games.

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Sessions

The State of Scala on WebAssembly

Talk
12. October 2026, 15:50 - 16:20
Kesselhaus
WebAssembly is increasingly used beyond browsers for serverless, sandboxing, AI workloads, and more. This talk explores the current state of Scala on Wasm with Scala.js and scala-wasm, an experimental project targeting standalone runtimes, WASI, and the Component Model. This session covers current capabilities, limitations, and future directions.