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Grain: Your WebAssembly-First Programming Language - WebAssembly Summit 2021
Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling).
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WebAssembly: Building a Secure-by-Default Ecosystem - Lin Clark at WebAssembly Summit
Lin Clark, principal research engineer at Mozilla focusing on WebAssembly and Rust, discussed at the WebAssembly Summit the security challenges WebAssembly must address. Clark explained how the nano-process proposal strives to provide portable, secure-by-default WebAssembly modules.
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WebAssembly, Expanding the Pie - Ben Smith at WebAssembly Summit
Ben Smith, chair of the Web|Assembly community group, recalled at WebAssembly Summit the beginnings of WebAssembly and how it has increased and refined its scope and capabilities.
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Ashley Williams Discusses the Future of WebAssembly at the WebAssembly Summit
Ashley Williams, systems engineer at Cloudflare, gave at WebAssembly Summit her understanding of the things that WebAssembly needs to be successful.