Web Assembly: The Future Of Js And A Multi-Language Web

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Claim: 80% of users run browsers that can run languages other than JS; WebAssembly becomes a compilation target for Rust, C/C++, Go, C#, even PHP and lets heavy compute stay in the browser. Demo uses ImageMagick compiled to Wasm to do offline image edits and runs up to 10x faster than JS for some ops. Node >=8 loads precompiled .wasm modules (no per-arch rebuilds). WASI and Cloudflare Workers extend this to serverless and servers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:05WebAssmebly is a compilation target
3. 13:18The Demo
4. 14:19But what about Node.JS?
5. 14:43Native. Heccin. Modules.

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