Web Assembly (Wasm)

Created by barzilouik on Tue 23-10-18

Learn

• Webassembly docs @Mozilla
• "Webassembly in action" (MEAP) book, some chapters available
• Web assembly free books
• wasmbyexample
• Tour of webassembly chap1 and chap2

Vids

• Wasm good intro Video
• GOTO 2019 • WebAssembly Beyond the Browser • Dan Callahan Video
• WebAssembly summit 2020,feb

Blog/Infos

• Twitter Rust + Wasm
• Scott Logic
• Wasm weekly
• Bytecode Alliance .. evolution of the ecosystem

Tools

• Webassemby studio (+ explanation video) +(1 wall led example)
• Wasm Fiddle with a fractal example (c+ + to wasm online) cf article
• Wasm Explorer (online c++ compiler, assembler)
• WasmJIT .. compile c code to wasm, exec it, make kernel modules
• terrarium … generate sandboxed wasm, experimental, deployed as a service

Ressources

• nphysics.org… has Wasm demos of Rust's physics Library
• Awsome Wasm
• Qt for webassembly example
• Wasm is not a state machine .. troubleshoot wasm design
• Classic Atari Robbo (rust=>wasm)
• Awesome Wasm Runtimes (incl. Nebulet)

OS

• tomaka os = redskirt .. executables are all in WASM and are loaded from some IPFS-like decentralized network.

interpreters

• Wasmer .. compiling tool for native packed executable (i.e run wasmed Nginx!)
• Wasm3 .. very fast C interpreter (embeddable on ESP, etc…)
• Crafting Interpreters .. language, interpreter, VM (good overlook)

repositories

• Webassembly.sh
• Wapm .. is the WebAssembly Package Manager, announce@medium

Demos

• 4K WebGL + sound
• GameBoy color emulator
• Doom! (btw cf the j.carmack epic dev)
• The famous Epic Zen Garden demo (not available online)
• Maze
• World of wasm
• Made with Webassembly
• Sokol C small 2D/3D engine

Target languages

Rust 🦀 and 🕸

• HelloRust .. some news but not updated
• CraneStation/wasmtime … VM from the Cretonne/Cranelift project
• Nanowasm … minimal embeddable VM no_std
• wabt … The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit
• Course using Rust with Webassembly
• The Rust Wasm book
• Increase Rust/Wasm performance
• Tutorials - Hello wasm-pack!

Others

• AssemblyScript .. Typescript to Wasm compiler
• Wasm Explorer with C/C+ +
• Awsome list of WASM languages