Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
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Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
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Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#2Thanks for the writeup! I had a hard time figuring out how to compile C++ to WebAssembly a couple of weeks ago and finally gave up given the lack of maturity of the implementation. I am sure this will help more people get interested in WebAssembly!
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#3Thanks for the writeup! I had a hard time figuring out how to compile C++ to WebAssembly a couple of weeks ago and finally gave up given the lack of maturity of the implementation. I am sure this will help more people get interested in WebAssembly!
I had the exact same problem when I first started. Someone once told me "what we can throw away to solve this problem", so I kept removing parts until I got here which I think is currently the easiest way to get started.
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#4Nice investigation! A minor point about your description of wasm: "WebAssembly or wasm is a bytecode specification for writing performant, browser agnostic web components." The term "web components" already has a pretty specific meaning referring to the in-progress specs for custom html ui elements and surrounding technologies (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components). You probably don't want to overload that term given how close the domains already are.
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#5Nice investigation! A minor point about your description of wasm: "WebAssembly or wasm is a bytecode specification for writing performant, browser agnostic web components." The term "web components" already has a pretty specific meaning referring to the in-progress specs for custom html ui elements and surrounding technologies (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components ). You probably don't want…
That's fair. Originally asm.js was named capsule.js but that was taken and didn't really mean what it was. We could also call it modules but there is another very related spec out there for that as well. What would you call it instead?
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#6Nice investigation! A minor point about your description of wasm: "WebAssembly or wasm is a bytecode specification for writing performant, browser agnostic web components." The term "web components" already has a pretty specific meaning referring to the in-progress specs for custom html ui elements and surrounding technologies (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components ). You probably don't want…
That's fair. Originally asm.js was named capsule.js but that was taken and didn't really mean what it was. We could also call it modules but there is another very related spec out there for that as well. What would you call it instead?
Object files?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_file
Of course the term "object" is confusingly overloaded too...
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#7On one hand, I want to bash WebAssembly because it takes away our ability to see what we're running on our own PCs. On the other, it helps us slowly get away from the mess that is modern JavaScript.
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#8Huh, the AST looks pretty human readable. Anyone have tips for writing WebAssembly without using asm.js? Even a pointer to decent documentation would be great.
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#9Hey, the intermediate language is actually a nice step up from JS.
Re: Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
#10Huh, the AST looks pretty human readable. Anyone have tips for writing WebAssembly without using asm.js? Even a pointer to decent documentation would be great.
Well, if you're comfortable with that AST text-format, check [1] for docs and examples (the .wast files in the links). If you're super brave, there's hints about the Binary AST format here [2]
[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEnco...