Demystifying WebAssembly, Through the Eyes of A Beginner
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Demos show concrete outcomes: a VS Code + live-server example loads a .wasm module with streaming compilation and prints “hello world” in the browser; TensorFlow.js running MobileNet switches backend to WebAssembly and cuts inference time by about 50× compared to plain CPU (example: 512 ms → ~10 ms orders); a Node.js frontend calls a Rust function compiled to WASM deployed via Second State/VersaMates as a function‑as‑a‑service returning “hotdog” at ~85% confidence; runtimes and platforms named include WasmEdge/Wasmtime, Fermion and wasmCloud enabling webassembly containers and server/edge use.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 0:51Demystifying Webassembly through the Eyes of a Beginner
- 2:34Is Webassembly Is a Programming Language
- 3:24What Webassembly Is
- 6:03Hello World in Web Assembly
- 6:41Webassembly Is Actually a Replacement for Javascript
- 7:42Webassembly
- 10:12Webassembly Can Actually Replace Javascript
- 12:35Ffmpeg
- 16:16Figma
- 17:50Webassembly with Node Js
- 21:22Demos
- 21:37Running a Simple Web Assembly File in the Browser
- 25:25Doing Machine Learning Inference on the Browser
- 32:16Resources
- 34:32Is Polygot Programming Uh Possible with Web Assembly
- 35:36What Are the Top Three Players in Terms of Web Assembly
- 38:01Biggest Advantages for Webassembly
- 39:40What Kind of Ci Cd Tooling Is Available for Web Assembly
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