smallcircles, Interview with Ben Titzer, co-founder of the #WebAssembly open standard.
sunfish, New blog post: Bridging between source languages, in Wasm
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/bridging-language-divides-in-wasm/
tomayac, 📢 The next #WasmAssembly podcast 🎧 episode is out!
CG, WG, W3C, Deepti—Wasm standardization with Deepti Gandluri:
https://wasmassembly.libsyn.com/cg-wg-w3c-deeptiwasm-standardization-with-deepti-gandluriIn case you didn't notice: the YouTube version of the podcast has some additional visuals 👀, apart from the talking heads…
frankel, I spent a large portion of the day playing with the #WebassemblyComponentModel tutorial.
https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/tutorial.html
I get "encoded as a component but the #WebAssembly component model feature is not enabled" when running #wastime run my.wasm.
Any help/hint would be very welcome
frankel, I was understanding #WASM all wrong! 🤯
https://medium.com/@yujiisobe/i-was-understanding-wasm-all-wrong-e4bcab8d077c
stealthmusic, @frankel yeah, probably something like that! When I first heard about WASM I thought “thank god, I don’t have to use JS anymore”, but that assumption was also wrong and is now partly a non issue due to typescript. I wonder if there will be any “main stream” usage for WASM as it seems to be still a niche thing…
frankel, @stealthmusic have a look at the wasm component model
khalidabuhakmeh,
damselfly, @jaykul @khalidabuhakmeh you're missing the point. It's an excuse to rant about how shit hot reload is. Anything else is besides the point. 😉
khalidabuhakmeh, @damselfly @jaykul rant away sir, rant away!
sdeleuze, French The Kotlin/Wasm team has created an early prototype of a #WebAssembly component written in #Kotlin linked with another component written in #Rust and running in Node.js. Looking forward being able to run that in Wasmtime when it gets WasmGC support. https://github.com/skuzmich/kotlin-wasm-cm-experiments
mogul, Someone big doing this has been such an inevitable development but it has taken so long! With #WASM now included in standards and supported in pretty much every browser there is an opportunity to treat the browser as the target platform abstraction for high performance stuff like #games. And there is nothing the actual underlying OS can do to gatekeep that content without breaking the web!
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/mobile/microsoft-launching-web-based-mobile-game-storefront-in-july
mogul, @Migueldeicaza I was thinking this ever since you made .NET cross-platform way back in the day, but MS didn't manage to get it taken up as a standard in browsers.
Migueldeicaza, @mogul they were both protective and divesting at the same time in that time frame.
The good news is that we got Wasm instead, so in the end, things worked out for the better!
khalidabuhakmeh, (edited ) I thought I would take up the challenge of getting @enhance_dev #WASM working with #aspnetcore with the ability to SSR web components directly into the request pipeline.
Yep... it works. TagHelpers make this nice and natural part of the #dotnet web stack. #webcomponents #web #javascript
Update: You can try it out for yourself at this #GitHub repo. https://github.com/khalidabuhakmeh/EnhanceWebComponents
athas,
squillace, Congratulations to a whole bunch of people who have laid down a suggested path to use #webassembly components and the #oci artifact spec 1.1: https://tag-runtime.cncf.io/wgs/wasm/deliverables/wasm-oci-artifact/
This gives a lot of people the possibility to begin using a platform with components that they already know and love -- and it gives the ability to target any arch or os with one "artifact". multiarch builds goes away here.
sunfish, @squillace A key achievement of this spec is that a Wasm component in an OCI registry is conceptually still a component, rather than a wrapper that modifies the semantics of a component.
Among other things, this means that artifacts in OCI registries can continue to participate in component composition.
squillace, @sunfish yuppers! Have to have a look at how toolchains can use this directly
tomayac, (edited ) 💨 WebAssembly performance patterns for web apps:
https://web.dev/articles/webassembly-performance-patterns-for-web-apps
In this guide, aimed at web developers who want to benefit from #WebAssembly, you'll learn how to make use of #Wasm to outsource CPU-intensive tasks with the help of a running example.
bsletten, GTK uses Vulkan by default on Wayland now. The migration from X to Wayland is super fascinating and intricate. I’ve been watching it unfold for years and have fought the urge to do deep dives. Future UI toolkits will continue to use multiple rendering engines and will facilitate compiling for desktop and/or browser which is going to reduce interest in JavaScript UI frameworks. There are frameworks that behave/look the same as desktop and Web applications.
bsletten, @tomayac Uno Platform and egui are the two that come to mind. I know I’ve seen more but I can’t remember. If I do know send. I’m convinced there will be more moving forward.
tomayac, @bsletten egui is on my list, too. I also have Qt Wasm and Avalonia UI. Then there's Flutter and Compose Multiplatform. Oh, and wxWidgets Wasm. I didn't have Uno Platform. Thanks for the reply!
bsletten, Excited to listen to the first episode of @tomayac ‘s new WebAssembly podcast where he interviews Alon Zakai about the history and pre-history of #webassembly:
fireflyzero, Hello World! Firefly Zero is an in-development handheld game console that runs #wasm and supports #BLE multiplayer. It is written by @orsinium in #Rust, runs on #ESP32, and will be fully open source (both software and hardware).
We already have a working desktop emulator and are getting a Rust and #golang SDK ready for alpha testing. Sounds fun? Stay tuned!
Website:
https://fireflyzero.com/
tomayac, 🤩 I'm extremely excited to release episode 1 of my monthly podcast 🎧 #WasmAssembly!
From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai (@kripken):
https://wasmassembly.libsyn.com/ (See there for links to Spotify, YouTube,…)
Learn about some early #WebAssembly history from one of the co-creators of #Wasm, Alon Zakai! Follow along how Alon explains how we came from Native Client to asm.js and then finally to WebAssembly, and explore some interesting historical and present day sidetracks on the way.
teleclimber,
tomayac, @teleclimber @kripken I guess it simply takes some time to propagate. It's also not yet to be found on Apple or Google Podcasts for example when I checked earlier.
devs, Getting started with #WebAssembly? Let us point you in the right direction with videos on OS design, the component model, security features, generative AI and more! ▶️
https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-can-teach-you-about-the-wasm-future-in-just-6-talks
squillace, @devs One that Fastly's Luke Wagner gave at #wasmio about a month ago I want to call out as absolutely unmissable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3x4-nQeXxc.
raiderrobert, Played around with DuckDB #wasm over the weekend.
Pulled in Parquet data from an S3 bucket using DuckDB's native support for that. Immediately queried of the data with standard SQL syntax.
My mind went a thousand directions with the implications for #localfirst web apps.
happyborg, @raiderrobert yes, very exciting stuff. Am learning about #CRDTs on #Autonomi right now while building a demo website publisher / browser.
There's so much brilliant tech going on right now and #localfirst will I hope be part of the shift away from closed platforms.
squillace, For those starting out in the #webassembly, #rust, and #golang ecosystems we have two (2!) software engineering positions for devs located in:
- Poland
- Serbia
- Romania
- The Czech Republic
Def apply. If you don't, we can't find you!!!
https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1678249/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8BSoftware-Engineer
isntitvacant, It's here! It's here!
This is the best job I've done conveying why I'm so enthusiastic about #wasm – or at least, the most succinct job I've done! We walk from the 1960's right up to the present day and, as a bonus, uh
we find out how java killed plan 9
>> <<
masukomi, @isntitvacant ooooh can't wait to watch this. :D
esoterra, @isntitvacant it was a great talk!
tomayac, Pretty excited about the #Wasm ESM integration proposal (https://github.com/WebAssembly/esm-integration/tree/main/proposals/esm-integration) having recently reached Phase 3 status. This will soon make it possible to import #WebAssembly as in the following code sample:
import source wasmModule from "./module.wasm" with { "type": "wasm" } const instance = await WebAssembly.instantiate(wasmModule, {});
If you skip the
source
above, the Wasm module will be instantiated immediately.See https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iZzoRE3LhlMuJz8-npW5Kc9GnUydVI6PPj8lgPuwdi4/edit?usp=sharing for more.
tomayac, #WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-adoption-is-slow-and-steady-winning-the-race/ I think the @TheNewStack's coverage of #Wasm is really good. Hope to discuss some of the questions they raise on my upcoming #WasmAssembly podcast 🎧.
enhance_dev, 🎉 Introducing Enhance WASM
Say hello to Enhance WASM — backend agnostic server-side rendering for web components.
by @brianleroux
#WebComponents #enhance #WASM #ssr
https://begin.com/blog/posts/2024-04-08-introducing-enhance-wasm
enhance_dev, @erlend that’s weird. I went back and checked the post and it does seem to have the correct link. I used Ivory to post, what client are you using to read it? Trying to find out if there is some sort of bug in Ivory’s autocomplete of usernames.
erlend, @enhance_dev oh I mean the blog post itself.
jbzfn,
sunfish, This talk by @esoterra introduces the idea of #Wasm "component-native" tooling, using Claw, a language built this way from the start.
It's obviously valuable to port existing language toolchains to Wasm. As we think about Wasm's future, it's also interesting to have component-native toolchains in the mix, because they have greater flexibility to take unconventional approaches, and find new creative ways of solving problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgl414xwU2s&list=PLP3xGl7Eb-4Nmj4CJ5WLQZx5UAYvhH920&index=5