This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 009

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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News and Blog Posts

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• Multithreading Rust and WebAssembly
• Introducing the Ruukh Framework. An experimental next-gen frontend framework for the Web in Rust. GitHub repository.
• The new website for the pest PEG parser generator has a nice wasm-based try-it-live demo at the bottom: https://pest.rs/
• WebAssembly and Dynamic Memory. A comparison of portability of allocators for wasm, featuring wee_alloc.
• Simi is a new, simple framework for building wasm-front-end Web application in Rust.
• Encrusted is an interpreter for Infocom-era interactive fiction games like Zork that runs in your browser and is built with Rust and WebAssembly.
• Using WebAssembly with Rust is a new, free Video Course on Egghead.
• Pauan/SaltyBetBot is a SaltyBet Bot written entirely in Rust and stdweb and compiled to Wasm.
• Serverless Rust with AWS Lambda and WebAssembly
• Serverless Rust with Cloudflare Workers and WebAssembly
• php-ext-wasm is a PHP extension written in C, calling a Rust lib through FFI, using wasmi behind the scene.
• HOWTO: Setting up WebAssembly on stable Rust without rustup. Instructions on using raw Rust and Wasm if you happen not to have rustup available.
• Wasmer is a WebAssembly runtime built on top of Cranelift.
• Terrarium is a fork of WebAssembly Studio, except rather than run WebAssembly in your browser, it is deployed to a fastly server.
• runwasm is an Emscripten emulation layer built with wasmi.
• Bringing Elm’s architecture to Rust and Webassembly
• Stanford’s CS 242 Programming Languages Class will feature Rust and WebAssembly.
• The “Programming WebAssembly with Rust” book by Kevin Hoffman and published by Pragmatic Programmers is in beta and available for pre-order.
• yiransheng/rust-snake-wasm is a snake game in Rust and WebAssembly.
• console-web is a crate for writing to the console in wasm using wasm-bindgen.

Updates from rustwasm/*

• wasm-bindgen 0.2.28 released! 🎉
• wasm-pack 0.5.1 released! 🎉
• Twiggy 0.3.0 released! 🎉
• There are two new reference sections in the Rust and Wasm book:
  1. Which Crates Will Work with Rust and WebAssembly?
  2. How to Add WebAssembly Support to a General-Purpose Crate

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

Jobs

• Fastly is hiring for work on their native WebAssembly compiler, which is written in Rust, based on Cranelift