How I Found the Meaning of Life Thanks to WebAssembly

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A developer recounts discovering programming through implementing Conway's Game of Life with WebAssembly. The talk covers cellular automata, emergence, and performance challenges encountered while building the Game of Life during a career change, showing how WebAssembly was used to address those performance issues.

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1. 0:00Existential quest
2. 1:53Game of Life rules
3. 4:43Naive JS implementation
4. 6:48Performance issues on large grids
5. 7:31Slowdowns in JavaScript
6. 8:34WebAssembly to the rescue
7. 9:59Migration to WebAssembly results
8. 13:09Raw performance comparison
9. 14:11New life through the web

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