WASM is AWSM (JS Party #32)

Kevin Ball and Suz Hinton talk with Jay Phelps about WebAssembly; what it is, how to use it, and how some are using it already.

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Featuring:

• Jay Phelps – GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• WebAssembly Demystified


• Can I use… WASM


• Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog


• GopherJS vs WebAssembly for Go - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻


• WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x – Figma Design


• Screamin’ Speed with WebAssembly – Hacker Noon


• JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A wasm-bindgen Tale – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog


• raphamorim/wasm-and-rust: WebAssembly and Rust: A Web Love Story


• Hello wasm-pack! – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog


• all: WebAssembly (“wasm”) support · Issue #18892 · golang/go


• Guide for C/C++ developers - WebAssembly


• Compiling a New C/C++ Module to WebAssembly - WebAssembly | MDN


• rust-native-wasm-loader - npm


• cpp-loader - npm


• WebAssembly Studio


• DenisKolodin/yew: Rust framework for building client web apps


• Initial stab at porting asm/stack.ts to Rust by alexcrichton · Pull Request #752 · glimmerjs/glimmer-vm


• Draco 3D Graphics Compression

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!