WebAssembly Literacy free ebook

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I don’t know how I missed this when it was released a little while back … this is a completely free 100 page ebook about WebAssembly! This book is intended for anyone who wants to understand WebAssembly itself, it doesn’t cover Rust, C++ or any of the other toolchains, instead it dives into the runtime directly. A fantastic read!

Announcing WebAssembly.sh

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Wasmer is a very cool standalone WebAssembly runtime. It uses the WASI interface to provide WebAsssembly modules with the I/O they require to do anything useful. A few weeks back the Wasmer team launched Wasmer-JS, a JavaScript implementation of WASI. This has allowed them to build the WebAssembly Shell - WebAssembly.sh - which executed Wasmer modules directly in the browser. So, so cool.

Spacemesh WebAssembly VM

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Spacemesh is yet another cryptocurrency that is adopting WebAssembly for its smart contract engine. This blog post gives a really detailed summary of why they are using WebAssembly and some interesting technical details regarding contract execution and how state is stored on the blockchain.

Video: Rust, WebAssembly, and the future of Serverless

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In this talk Steve Klabnik discusses why WebAssembly is being used as a runtime for Serverless functions.

Introduction to WebAssembly for .NET Developers

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There is a lot of excitement growing in the C# / .NET community, and the opening line from this article says it all “I really feel that we are on the brink of a revolution. It’s still very early in the revolution, but I feel like WebAssembly is going to completely change the way we think of web applications.”

And Finally

And amazing WebAssembly hack, a fully playable maze game, hand crafted in ~2500 bytes of wasm.