Lin Clark: A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly | JSConf EU

WebAssembly is fast. It’s being called “the future of the web”. It’s speed and potential have major browser vendors working together to make it a reality. And it’s on it’s way—the MVP hit multiple browsers in October of last year.

But what makes it fast? Starting from the basics, this talk will walk you through what WebAssembly is, and then why it’s fast.

[alex_on_the_web]

20:30 The most hardcore LLVM fan in the audience :D

[trkjo]

Awesome speaker with great illustrations. Clear, instructive and dynamic talk on this interesting topic.

[misanthropicjoy]

Fantastic presentation. Thank you. I love these high level overviews. Most of us want to "get to coding" but without context it's only zombie coding.

[nonen]

Wow, she ate this talk up. Very clear, very precise. Danke!

[MsPwaterman]

Bravo! Excellent, crystal clear explanation of a difficult topic! (Particularly for non-programmers, and more "visually-oriented" individuals.) TY!

[KelvinMeeks]

Such an excellent presentation - and a very talented speaker.

[kesuskim]

awesome talk, awesome illustration. AWESOME! ;D

[wpleary]

This is such a good presentation. Thoroughly enjoyed.

[ShameerAhamediboad]

She is an absolutely brilliant speaker.

[salvatorezappala]

This is incredibly informative. Thank you

[mustafwm]

A great presentation. Learned a lot. Thank you :)

[BernhardHofmann]

Absolutely brilliant talk. THANK YOU ! <3

[xinyixu]

heptapods at 7:14! ! It is like the scene of Arrival.

[japrogramer]

When will wasm be able to manipulate the dom?

[jetmartin]

Maybe I'm confused about WebAssembly. I ask because in the comments for this video I see people asking when will JS will be replaced by WebAssembly (as if programmers will be developing code in WebAssembly) and further more people speculating that JS won't likely be replaced completely by
WebAssembly for another X years(?) so their NodeJS, Angular and JS skills are safe for now? Huh?


I thought I understood from this talk that developers will still be writing their applications in high level languages (e.g., JS, plus others). It's just that these High Level Languages will get compiled into WebAssembly code that will be downloaded and run in the browser (after it gets translated into machine code by the browser engine). So with that context in mind I don't understand all of this discussion/speculation about WebAssembly replacing JS and obsoleting other high level software tools (e.g., Nodejs, Angular). It's not a competing technology to high level software dev tools...it's complimentary, right?


Am I missing something?

[mememe]

presenter is avoiding to mention that the guy who made Java script is Brendan Eich who was Mozilla CEO who was forced out of his position like the plague. He runs Brave Browser and Brave Search now

[dirghayujoshi]

WOW!! This is a really cool presentation.

[orlovsskibet]

Excellent presentation.
Manual memory management and numbers only.... I think there is some ground to cover before this is getting widely used. And I can't help to wonder if wasm is that important... I mean if it is only number crunching, how much of that would you like to run on the client anyway?

[InayetHadi]

This was very clear in explaining webassembly compared to a lot of other videos in YouTube.

I am learning javascript, nodejs, and angular... will these technologies be abandoned in next 5+ years?

[BryanChance]

Brilliant talk. Thank you. I just saw another fantastic talk on WebAssembly by Dan Callahan (also from Mozilla). Are all Mozilla folks this good? :p