ConfPad

Use the best tool for the job" doesn't work on the Web. Even if you pick a different tool--CoffeeScript, TypeScript, or even Elm--you're really using JavaScript. And JavaScript, like any high level language, has strong opinions about what your code can do and how it's going to do it. WebAssembly ("WASM") changes everything by transforming the Web into a low level platform that can support other programming languages. This talk dives into one of those languages, Rust, and looks at the new and exciting things that it enables. If you want to experiment with WASM, there's no better place to start.