Dave Ogle has been looking into Web Assembly or Wasm.
It’s something I’ve heard of on and off over the last few years but never really understood very well. Getting started, my understanding initially, was that Wasm was a way to use languages other than JavaScript in the browser. I’d also noted that the Rust programming language seemed to be a popular choice for working with Wasm and that was something else I was keen to have a play with. With this in mind I set about creating an exploration project, the goal of which would be to write a program in Rust and get it to run in the browser.
After a quick hunt about on the web I decided to try and follow this tutorial for implementing Conway’s Game of Life in Rust and WebAssembly. I followed the step by step guide and with a bit of tweaking to handle updates in WebPack since the guide was published, I was able to get it working. If you’re interested the results are here.
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