This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 001

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust and WebAssembly!

Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed.

Web Assembly is designed as a portable target for compilation of high-level languages like C/C++/Rust, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

These Weeks in Rust and WebAssembly.

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News

• WebAssembly Studio - Online IDE
• New, in-depth tutorial: Conway’s Game of Life in Rust and WebAssembly. Topics covered include:
  • Setting up the toolchain and making a hello world
  • Designing Rust programs for WebAssembly
  • Debugging
  • Time profiling
  • Code size profiling
• Svelte was renamed to Twiggy. It is a code size profiler for WebAssembly, written in Rust
  • Twiggy is integrated into WebAssembly Studio
  • Analyze bloat from monomorphisation of generic functions
• What will it take to get ggez (a lightweight 2D games framework) on WebAssembly?

Cool tools to watch out for

• webchat-client-rs
  • A doodle to create a mostly-rust client-server web app with a shared data model and binary communication over websocket between a server and WebAssembly client built using wasm-bindgen.

Blog posts

• NES-Emulator in Rust and WebAssembly
• Hello wasm-pack!
• Small WebAssembly binaries with Emscripten

Crates so far

• wasm-snip 0.1.2 released
• wasm_bindgen 0.2.5 released