Patrick Kettner - SeattleJS Conference 2017

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Claims that existing compilers can bring whole languages to the browser and demonstrates it by compiling Ruby Sass with Opal, patching Opal (added match_size) and modifying Sass to run inside a web worker. The build generates and runs tests for ~80 historical Sass versions, yields a full runtime of ~2.7 MB (brotli ≈ 250 KB) so it works but is heavy, and the talk points to WebAssembly / LLVM / Emscripten as the faster, binary future (examples: SQLite, Quake3, libjpeg in workers).

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:26Introduction
3. 1:34Responsive Web Design
4. 4:10Lexing
5. 6:18SAS
6. 7:52First rule
7. 9:23Second rule
8. 11:41Third rule
9. 12:28Opal
10. 14:59Test Everything
11. 16:00sass
12. 16:52JavaScript
13. 17:37WebAssembly
14. 18:54LLVM
15. 23:04Web Assembly
16. 27:15Final Rule

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