Why you should consider WebAssembly in your next frontend project - Håkan Silfvernagel

During the last decades a growing trend has been to put more and more functionality into the client by using the latest and greatest JavaScript framework. But what if we could be using native code in the browser in order to run computations faster and potentially reuse code from the backend in the frontend.

Enter Web Assembly. Web assembly is a new web standard which enables you to run native code as part of your current JavaScript framework. This talk will give you a thorough understanding of what web assembly is and how you can use it in your project.

We will cover a practical example writing our web assembly using Rust. We will go through everything from writing your web assembly code to publish it as a npm package and finally use it in an existing web application.

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[Pariatech]

Nice timing. I'm currently writing a Common Lisp compiler to WebAssembly.

[jbird]

Regarding the "newold" I was thinking Java. That compiles to a binary intermediate language. It runs in your browser or outside of it. It's an open standard. It runs on every platform. It only calls packages "jars" instead of "crates", because, you know, at Rust and Java we're all special.

[jbird]

Blazor is nuts. Sorry, but I can't get around the idea you're making people download half an operating system for your website.