Creating High-Performance Web Apps with WebAssembly

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WebAssembly compiles C/C++/Rust to a portable binary that runs at near‑native speed across modern browsers (Chrome 74+, Node.js support), reduces download size, and sandboxes code. The speaker builds a Rust+JS hybrid and ships a Mandelbrot fractal demo that benchmarks much faster than JS (big gains on Safari), explains instantiation/exports, shows limitations (poor debugging, no native strings/booleans, fallback for IE), and outlines upcoming features like threads and SIMD.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 23:10Data Types
3. 26:18Operations
4. 30:06Coming Up Features
5. 35:06Programming Languages
6. 39:51Benchmark

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