Sarah Lim at React Rally 2019

According to the website, WebAssembly is "a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine, designed as a compilation target for higher-level languages like C++ and Rust." One year ago, I knew what some of those words meant. Now I understand all of them, and my goal is to share this understanding with you, fellow JavaScript programmer. We'll deep-dive into the WASM linear memory model and execution semantics, and explore how to interact with WASM modules using the JavaScript API. If calling C++ a "high-level language" makes you feel slightly ill, you are the target audience member for this talk. The title, by the way, is a reference to A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages by James Iry, which you should read immediately. Links: 📊 Slides: http://sarahlim.com/react-rally-2019/ 🧮 Fiddle: https://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/ 🦀 Rust code: https://github.com/sarahlim/wasm-traceShow more