WASM is AWSM

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 – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub

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!