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Aug 29, 2018

Welcome to #DevDiscuss, tonight's topic is: WebAssembly You don't have to be an expert to take part in this convo, far from it. Few understand this tech deeply. Some quick Qs: - What are your initial thoughts on WebAssembly? - How will this change the language landscape?

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Phil Nash

@philnash

Aug 29, 2018

I've never written any WebAssembly (or compiled anything to it, really). Does anyone know of the best getting started resources? #DevDiscuss

just gave a talk on web assembly for

@ComposeMelb

- his demos had web assembly in the browser I bet he could point you to some starter repos ✨

Paul Bone

@Paul_Bone

Aug 29, 2018

Unless you're planning to target a compiler to webassembly. I think it's best to decide what language you want to work _from_ first. RIght now I think that's Rust, C, C++ or Go. Choose one of those then find the tools.

Paul Bone

@Paul_Bone

Aug 29, 2018

If you're using C then try webassembly.org/getting-starte And apparently Rust has some good tooling that's actually built into one of the JS bundlers, and handles the loading for you also.

Phil Nash

@philnash

Aug 29, 2018

Yeah, I'm definitely not working on a compiler! I've no experience in pretty much any of those languages, so Rust seems most appealing right now. #DevDiscuss