Written by Welcome to the second Learning at Lambert Labs session. Every week, we release videos, presented by our developers, giving quick lectures on a chosen topic in technology.
This week’s presenter is Ramin Tawab and his session is an introduction to WebAssembly and how we can use it to embed non-JavaScript code in web applications. See the video below.
In Today’s Learning Session:
- Issues in JavaScript (different implementations, inherently slow, forced to use JS ecosystem on the web)
- Introduce WebAssembly as the solution
- WebAssembly under the hood (data types and stack-based VM)
- Demonstration
- Famous use-case (AutoCAD Browser)
- Pyiodide: Python on the web
- Containers vs. WebAssembly VM.
- Future: removing JS glue code, WASI, …
- Q&A from our developers
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Our engagement aims to be conversational and developers are encouraged to ask questions to expand on the ideas that they heard. Each presenter has the freedom to choose whatever topic they wish, as long as it is within a genre of technology or computer science. We are a Python development agency at heart, but that doesn’t stop us showing off our strong computer literacy and broad technical knowledge!