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