WinterTC: Standards for server-side runtimes
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Server-side and edge JavaScript runtimes (such as Node.js, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers…) have been adopting more and more web APIs over time. However, the web specifications that define these APIs are typically written with browsers in mind, without much regard for server-side runtimes, which has led to differences among those implementations.
In 2022 we started working towards solving this problem in WinterCG, which has now evolved into WinterTC, an Ecma Technical Committee aiming to publish standards for server-side runtimes. In this talk, we explore why this move was necessary, what we're working on, and how this will affect developers.
Andreu Botella
I'm a browser and standards engineer at Igalia, working on a number of things from implementing CSS features in browsers to working on standards proposals for both CSS and JavaScript. I am also one of the co-chairs of WinterTC, where we work on standards for server-side JavaScript runtimes.