LibreOffice running on WebAssembly

ALLOTROPIA.DE

LibreOffice is a free an open source productivity suite, with a word processor, spreasdheet and various other standard office tools. It has a very long heritage, starting as a fork of OpenOffice, which is around 20 years old. The team behind LibreOffice have been working on a WebAssmebly port for a little while, using the Emscripten compiler (for C++), and Qt for WebAssembly for the UI layer. I think this is the first time that a useable demo has been widely circulated.

If you want to hear more about the details, there is an accompanying talk from FOSDEM.

Townscaper

OSKARSTALBERG.COM

This WebAssembly powered game is absolutely gorgeous - just tap your mouse to build a townscape.

OK, I guess it isn’t much of a game in the strictest sense, in that there isn’t much to do beyond just clicking. But wow, it does look good!

Making a budget Pascal compiler to WebAssembly

GITHUB.IO

Pascal, that takes me back a few years. I think that was one of the first programming languages I learnt around 30 years ago! The author of this post decided to write their own Pascal-to-WebAssembly compiler, because, why not? having dabbled with writing a simple WebAssembly compiler, I’d thoroughly encourage anyone to give this a go. It is a lot of fun.

How we built our data transformation engine with the Wasm runtime

REDPANDA.COM

Redpanda is a streaming platform that is an alternative to the hugely popular Kafka, that allows you to add inline transforms via their WebAssembly engine. This is a bit like serverless functions specifically for Kafka. This blog post talks about why they picked WebAssembly, and delves into the technical details.