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085: WebAssembly with Jay Phelps
Episode 85

085: WebAssembly with Jay Phelps

We loved having Jay Phelps on the show so much last week, we invited him back this week to talk about WebAssembly!

The Frontside Podcast · Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan

October 5, 201743m 27s

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Show Notes

Jay Phelps: @_jayphelps | jayphelps.com

Show Notes:

  • 01:11 - Why is WebAssembly exciting?
  • 02:17 - What is WebAssembly?
  • 05:03 - Efficient Parsing
  • 06:41 - Why didn’t they just use JVM, CLR, LLVM IR, etc.?
  • 11:35 - Using WebAssembly: The Development Process
  • 20:30 - WASM, WAT, WAST File Formats
  • 25:22 - wabt and binaryen
  • 31:16 - emscripten
  • 31:58 - Consuming as a Library
  • 35:37 - Will WebAssembly replace JavaScript?

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