Fast future with WebAssembly

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WebAssembly compiles C/C++/Rust (and TypeScript via AssemblyScript) into a small binary that decodes fast and supports streaming compilation, giving reliable speed across browsers since 2017. Tooling includes LLVM/Emscripten and Rust’s wasm target; passing strings requires encoding and pointer math because Wasm exposes only four numeric types. Real ports: Unity games, Doom, Epic’s Zen garden, Figma and AutoCAD’s massive C++ codebases, Facebook image codecs, and a Rust rewrite of source-map that runs ~11× faster.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:24What about C, C++ or Rust?
3. 2:58VIDEO GAMES
4. 10:07Reliable performance.
5. 10:44PORTABILITY
6. 12:45FLEXIBILITY
7. 22:03Benefits for Javascript?
8. 23:51WebAssembly beyond the browser.
9. 24:22What lies ahead
10. 25:42WebAssembly is not the end of JavaScript, it's a new beginning for the web.

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