An Introduction to WebAssembly

Monday the 22nd of January 2018 — Written by Dovico

The concept behind WebAssembly isn’t new and is based on work that was pioneered by Mozilla (asm.js) and Google (Native Client — NaCl and Portable Native Client — PNaCl). One of WebAssembly’s main goals is parity with asm.js so I’ll give you a little background on that before we start digging into WebAssembly. When I first heard of asm.js a few years ago I was excited. The ability to write code in C/C++ and have it compiled down…

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WebAssembly – WasmFiddle and Inline WebAssembly Modules

Thursday the 4th of January 2018 — Written by Dovico

WasmFiddle JSFiddle, and tools like it, allow you to test code in the browser to see how it will work instead of having to write an application just to test something. Another advantage of tools like this is that you can share your example code on sites like Stack Overflow. It turns out that there is a similar tool for WebAssembly called WasmFiddle: https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle If we replace the code that is in the top-left pane…

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