WebAssembly – To the browser and beyond!
summary
WebAssembly is a binary compilation target that decodes up to 20x faster than JavaScript and already ships in ~88.39% of browsers; examples include a Rust Markdown parser demo at markdown.fastlylabs.com (eight Rust lines plus JS glue via wasm-bindgen and packaging with wasm-pack), PSPDFKit and Squoosh ported native libs, Google Earth hitting 2x framerate with threads, and edge runtimes compiling ahead to instantiate modules in ~34 microseconds using Lucet, showing real speed, portability and workable tooling today.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:38History of the Web
- 9:12What is WebAssembly
- 17:42How to use WebAssembly
- 24:22Examples
- 31:10Beyond the browser
- 38:50Future of WebAssembly
- 46:24Recap
- 47:33Questions
