Code '19 Feature session: WebAssembly, your browser's sandbox – Aaron Powell - Web Directions

Code ’19 Feature session: WebAssembly, your browser’s sandbox – Aaron Powell

John Allsopp 2nd May, 2019 @johnallsopp

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WebAssembly, your browser’s sandbox

We’ve been doing web development for 30+ years and in all that time have you ever stopped to think, “This SPA needs more C++”? Well thanks to the power of WebAssembly you can finally bring C, C++, Rust, Go and other high level languages to the browser.

So does this mean that we can replace our JavaScript with these other languages? Probably not, so what is the role that WebAssembly can play in building web applications? And most importantly, what does it look like as a web developer to try and incorporate these platforms that have traditionally been on the server?

For this talk, we’ll look at some of the fundamentals of WebAssembly, how to incorporate it into our development process and ultimately what it looks like to build an application that uses a mixed development stack.

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