This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 007

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.

Did we miss something? Tweet to us at @rustwasm or send us a pull request.

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

New Tools, Crates, and Projects

• A Sudoku Solver written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly
• Wasabi: a dynamic analysis framework for WebAssembly
  • Wasabi is written in Rust and built on top of WABT
• greenwasm is a WebAssembly engine written in Rust, designed to mirror the standard’s specification as closely as possible.

News and Releases

• The Game of Life tutorial now uses wasm-pack and has a section on publishing your wasm-game-of-life package to npm!
• Announcing wasm-bindgen 0.2.19
• Announcing js-sys 0.2.4

Articles, Blog Posts, and Talks

• From Rust to beyond: The WebAssembly Galaxy
  • @Hywan wrote a parser for WordPress’s Gutenberg document format in Rust and WebAssembly, and it is much faster than the original JavaScript implementation.
• @sendilkumarn is giving a talk on Rust and WebAssembly at Rust Amsterdam

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
• Add wasm-bindgen-futures to crates you should know section
• 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
• Add extends = ... attributes to js-sys types