From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai - WasmAssembly

In this episode, you'll 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. Resources: Alon Zakai: Homepage → https://goo.gle/3vVaHgi / (has links to all the social profiles, too) LinkedIn profile → https://goo.gle/4cZDqRS Native Client (NaCl) → https://goo.gle/3Q8oAi5 Portable NaCl (PNaCL) → https://goo.gle/4413xDK Compiling LLVM to JavaScript → https://goo.gle/4ay5Qke BananaBread demo → https://goo.gle/3xCWCEO asm.js → https://goo.gle/3Q5m10n asm.js presentation → https://goo.gle/445cz2F asm.js blog posts → https://goo.gle/3U4ZcuZ Emscripten and WebAssembly presentation → https://goo.gle/3W0SAQE Bringing the Web up to speed with WebAssembly paper → https://goo.gle/3JoDq0k Polywasm → https://goo.gle/4aE9JnV Qt apps compiled to asm.js → https://goo.gle/3UmXm9O Quake 3 Arena compiled to WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3Ukt9s1 Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction to Alon Zakai 2:08 - The early days of asm.js 14:58 - From asm.js to WebAssembly 22:31 - WebAssembly academic research 25:08 - Polyfilling Wasm 27:26 - Canvas-rendered apps 31:04 - WebAssembly and gaming 33:49 - Wasm, but not Watch more WasmAssembly → https://goo.gle/WasmAssembly Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs #WebAssembly #Wasm #ASMjs #Emscripten Speaker: Thomas Steiner, Alon Zakai