Getting Started with WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust Lang

In this video we create, build and execute some webassembly using Rust. We look at:

- how to scaffold your webassembly project in Rust
- how to build your webassembly project in Rust (including apple m1)
- how rust generated wasm compares to hand-coded wasm
- reverse engineering your wasm to webassembly text format (wat)

00:00 - intro
01:08 - installing wasm-pack
02:50 - creating a rust library for your wasm module with cargo
03:47 - exploring the scaffolded library in vscode
07:18 - writing some rust webassembky code in vscode
12:28 - building rustlang wasm with apple m1 silicon
14:13 - exploring the generated wasm
15:59 - reverse engineering wasm to wat
17:49 - optimizing the generated release wasm
21:58 - extending your webassembly in rust
25:40 - executing your rust generated wasm in nodejs
28:42 - handcoding some webassembly
30:00 - comparing rust generated and handcoded webassembly
31:50 - conclusion

[rehansiddiqui]

hey Chris, Super amazing. Nice to see you on YouTube

[flopasen]

thanks for the video, the very small tangents you go on are really helpful for newbies to get a background on additional info and possible pathways

[officialp]

This is a great video! Please do more Rust Videos in the future.

[MrEnsiferum]

This is great. Looks that wasm powered modules will help u to get out of that node_modules hell.

[DaveSpadea]

I believe you made a mistake when running the last optimized build. You ran cargo build rather than wasm-pack build. I think that’s why the size didn’t change in the last one.

Great video! I learned a lot!

[realfootball]

Does Rust WAsm supports multithreading with shared memory and atomic operations to write mutexes ?

[aperson]

Hey Chris, it's obvious you're also an artist with the medium, and the colouring is interesting to the eye! but don't you need something in the way of a fill light (i think that's what it's called) there's no separation between you and the background, and the right half of your face is almost completely invisible!

Also, is that a Sennheiser MD 421? No point having a mic of such value if your room sounds like shit. Acoustic treatment doesn't have to cost a lot if you're smart with the placement.

Cheers for the videos btw, great stuff

[ymblender]

Hi Chris, It's a great video! I use WASM in golang that it slowy then Javascript 10x, how about Rust WASM in browser?