Busy Developer’s Guide to WebAssembly

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WebAssembly defines a browser-target bytecode but not a runtime; practical toolchain work uses Emscripten SDK (LLVM/clang, emcc) to compile C/C++ into wasm plus JavaScript shims, and tooling like wabt / Binaryen to inspect and convert .wat ↔ .wasm. Demos compile SDL games to WebGL, run via Node or a simple Python HTTP server, producing artifacts like 42K .out.wasm vs 102K .out.js. Recommendation: evaluate now, but avoid production until richer interop (string type, 1.1) and broader runtime stability.

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1. 0:00Introduction to WebAssembly
2. 11:25History of client-side execution
3. 23:22Setting up Emscripten SDK
4. 32:39WebAssembly tooling overview
5. 41:19Writing WebAssembly by hand
6. 50:19WebAssembly tooling and future

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