WebAssembly's Post-MVP Futurer
summary
WebAssembly moves beyond MVP with concrete features and tools: threading via SharedArrayBuffer re-enable, SIMD and 64‑bit addressing proposals, streaming compilation and HTTP cache of compiled code, and a new fast compiler Cranelift. Real-world wins include a source‑maps parser rewritten in Rust running 11x faster and WordPress’s Gutenberg parser at 86x faster. Tooling and runtimes include wasm‑pack, Wasmtime/WASI (a POSIX‑like API) and Fastly’s edge runtime; GC, reference types and host bindings are in progress to enable deep JS integration and compilation of high‑level languages.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to WebAssembly
- 1:54Misconceptions about MVP
- 3:47WebAssembly MVP features
- 6:40Heavyweight apps in browser
- 10:16Speeding up load times
- 11:41Small module development
- 13:51JavaScript-WASM integration
- 16:40Rewriting JS frameworks
- 22:45WebAssembly beyond browser
- 25:57Improving Node.js with WASM
- 28:51Edge computing with WASM
- 32:50WASM in blockchain and IoT
- 34:17Portability and security
- 37:04Standardized runtime APIs
- 40:44Future of WASM development
- 43:12WebAssembly skill tree
- 44:14Closing remarks
