This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 005

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.

WebAssembly is a stack-based virtual machine and instruction set. It is fast, safe, portable, and part of the open Web platform. By compiling to WebAssembly, we can run Rust code on the Web!

This is a weekly summary of Rust and WebAssembly’s progress and community.

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Want to get involved in Rust and WebAssembly? Join the Rust and WebAssembly working group!

New Tools, Crates, and Projects

• Percy A modular toolkit for building isomorphic web apps with Rust + WebAssembly
• CBOR playground built with wasm-bindgen

News and Releases

• Announcing js-sys- crate
• Announcing wasm-pack 0.4.2!
• Announcing wee_alloc 0.4.2!
• Announcing wasm-bindgen 0.2.15

Articles, Blog Posts, and Talks

• Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?
• Writing a front-end WebAssembly framework in Rust: lessons learned

Requests for Contribution

• Join the Rust and WebAssembly Working Group!
  • All issues labeled “good first issue” in the rustwasm/* repositories
  • All issues labeled “help wanted” in the rustwasm/* repositories
• Expose bindings to ALL the global JS things
• Help build the web-sys crate by enabling bindings generation for more WebIDL interfaces!
  • Information on contributing to web-sys
  • Issues tracking adding various Web APIs to web-sys
• Help migrate the wasm_bindgen crate’s tests to wasm_bindgen_test