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The State Of WebAssembly - With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit

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English - August 05, 2019 20:15 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit from Mozilla discuss where WebAssembly came from and where it's going. WebAssembly was inspired by asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that could be compiled from a language such as C++. WebAssembly can take the idea further since it doesn't have the same limitations that JavaScript does.


Lin and Till talk about why even a front-end developer would use WebAssembly, which leads to a discussion on one of the primary use cases of WebAssembly, performance optimization. They also get into the nitty-gritty of WASI, or the WebAssembly System Interface, which allows WebAssembly to be used outside of the browser.

Resources

Lin Clark - Standardizing WASI: a system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
Lin Clark - A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
Rust and WebAssembly Book

Lin Clark

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Till Schneidereit

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Kent C. Dodds

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