Why you should consider WebAssembly in your next frontend project

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Argues that WebAssembly gives near‑native speed and lets backend code be reused in the browser, showing a Rust workflow that compiles with wasm-pack and generates glue with wasm-bindgen into an npm package; demos include a working Game of Life built in Rust → wasm and used from TypeScript, and benchmarks that show tighter performance spread than JavaScript; notes serverless runtimes with cold starts: Node ~200 ms, Fastly ~35 μs, Cloudflare ~5 ms.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:03Agenda
3. 2:01About Myself
4. 2:51Webassembly
5. 3:57Contrast the Javascript with Webassembly
6. 10:27Code Explorer
7. 11:08Rust
8. 11:25Background about Rust
9. 15:21Dependencies
10. 17:21Typescript File
11. 19:11Game of Life
12. 22:36Performance
13. 24:43Digital Signal Processing Library
14. 25:35Autocad
15. 26:13Autocad Flash App
16. 28:02Future Plans for Web Assembly
17. 28:47Serverless Webassembly
18. 30:05Serverless Web Assembly
19. 31:30The Web Assembly System Interface
20. 35:03Assembly Script
21. 40:21Conclusion

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