Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes
You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.
Show Notes
- Extism repo: https://github.com/extism/extism
- WebAssembly MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly
- Have a comment on this episode? Send an email to comments@therubyonrailspodcast.com
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