Web Assembly, Higher Education with JavaScript, JS Standards

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss all the details around Web Assembly, and the effects of higher education and JavaScript, and JS Standards.

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Featuring

• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
• Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
• Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

The topics covered in today’s show:

• Web Assembly and higher education with JavaScript, and JS Standards
• Project(s) of the Week: Lesser known JS standards — Abstract Blob Store, Abstract Chunk Store

• Web Assembly is ready.
• What kind of impact will it have on the ecosystem?
• Brendan is worried vendors will mess this up
• Cartoon intro to Web Assembly
• Getting Started with Web Assembly in Node.js
• Stanford is Migrating from Java to JavaScript

Project(s) of the Week

• Lesser Known JS Standards
• Abstract Blob Store
• Abstract Chunk Store

Picks

• Mikeal: Offline Camp, JSConf EU, csv,conf, and OpenVis Conf
• Alex: flow-typed
• Rachel: Data Sketches

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