webassembly-for-javascript-developers.md

WebAssembly for JavaScript Developer

Speakers: Andrei Cacio

Date: 16.10.2018

Venue: Evozon

Description:

Things we have covered:

• What is WebAssembly?
• Why the need
• The WebAssembly web API
• A short intro into ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays
• Emscripten vs native rust wasm
• Core concepts of Rust like ownership and borrowing
• A near real life demo

About Andrei:

I'm a JavaScript Developer at Moqups. I like to keep in touch with the latest and greatest tools. However, I favour design patterns and programming principles over the shiniest framework.

Slides:

N/A

Repo:

https://github.com/andrei-cacio/wasm-meetup

Meeting notes:

• Windows 2000 in the browser
• Webcam WASM demo
• WebAssembly Google I/O '17
• WebAssembly Google I/O '18