[Chapters Web Standards]: WebAssembly with Lin Clark

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Join us for a discussion of web standards that are in development or just coming to maturity as we strive to both increase our own understanding and abilities and help standards orgs shape the future of the web, from the ground up.

This month, Pittsburgh's own Lin Clark will be presenting WebAssembly. Lin makes code cartoons. She's also part of Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group, where she works with the WebAssembly and Rust teams. Her current project is making it easy to use WebAssembly with today's JavaScript tools, including npm and bundlers. In previous lives, she worked at npm, was a core contributor to open source projects like Firefox’s developer tools, and contributed to HTML data standards.

WebAssembly is fast. It’s being called “the future of the web”. It’s speed and potential have major browser vendors working together to make it a reality. And it’s here—it was enabled in all browsers last year. But what makes it fast? Starting from the basics, this talk will walk you through what WebAssembly is, and then why it’s fast.

7:00 - Past chapters discussions/demos

7:10 - Presentation/demos from Lin on the APIs

7:40 - Q&A / Roundtable discussion

Anyone who has experimented with things presented in prior chapters are encouraged to come and share any codepens or demos they created or discuss thoughts on that topic before we 'go live' with the presentation.

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Chapters are local or regional groups set up with the general goal of discussing standards, best described in the original post about it. The general goal is to dramatically increase participation in, and education about, standards in new and manageable ways. In the words of The Extensible Web Manifesto: To tighten the feedback loop between the editors of Web standards and developers. Essentially:

Bring people together in local forums to discuss developing standards; Create a ‘safer’ and ‘easier’ place for developers to learn with mentoring; Get help reviewing both standards and human documentation around them; To enlist help in looking at or reviewing and developing prollyfills and tests with an eye toward improving standards; To introduce people to new technology and help them to try using it; Most importantly perhaps, to coalesce this feedback and information and feed it back into standards bodies to manage noise and channels productively, so that Web developers finally have the voice they deserve in the making of the technology they use every day.

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