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In this episode, you'll learn about some early WebAssembly history from one of the co-creators of Wasm, Alon Zakai! Follow along how Alon explains how we came from Native Client to asm.js and then finally to WebAssembly, and explore some interesting historical and present day sidetracks on the way.
Resources:
Alon Zakai:
Homepage → / (has links to all the social profiles, too)
LinkedIn profile →
Native Client (NaCl) →
Portable NaCl (PNaCL) →
Compiling LLVM to JavaScript →
BananaBread demo →
asm.js →
asm.js presentation →
asm.js blog posts →
Emscripten and WebAssembly presentation →
Bringing the Web up to speed with WebAssembly paper →
Polywasm →
Qt apps compiled to asm.js →
Quake 3 Arena compiled to WebAssembly →
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction to Alon Zakai
2:08 - The early days of asm.js
14:58 - From asm.js to WebAssembly
22:31 - WebAssembly academic research
25:08 - Polyfilling Wasm
27:26 - Canvas-rendered apps
31:04 - WebAssembly and gaming
33:49 - Wasm, but not
#WebAssembly #Wasm #ASMjs #Emscripten
Speaker: Thomas Steiner, Alon Zakai
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2024/04/25
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