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Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Does the book cover anything on rendering with OpenGL or graphics libraries?

Yes! Chapter 8 talks about graphics; the Pacman example shows how to port a C++/SDL2 Pacman clone to WebAssembly and OpenGL (with Emscripten). That said, the focus of that chapter is porting games like that, but it doesn't go into writing OpenGL directly.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like a pretty standard price for a non-fiction book to me..?

Not for a book of 75 pages. The price and the amount of content don't seem to be in balance.

This very common line of thinking is how books that ought to be 75 pages balloon out to 225 pages, using 3x the words to convey the same amount of content.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Table of contents and sample chapter? Webassembly for genomics sounds cool :)

NCI Chromatic - Cancer Genomes with WebAssembly: https://chromatic.nci.nih.gov/

That's so cool, thanks for sharing! Do you know where I can find more info about how it was built/which portion of the app uses WebAssembly?
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