Let's ditch Javascript, and start using WebAssembly

Yoeri Otten

Aulan 15:40-16:00

Development

Since 1995 developers have tried to fix Javascript, by creating new languages like Coffeescript, creating superscripts like Typescript and finally trying to actually improve the language itself.

But alas WebAssembly (wasm) came along, freeing us from Javascript and allowing us to do something different on the web: compile almost any programming language to something our browser understands, with safety guarantees built in.

Over the past few years a whole new ecosystem has started to take shape, from tooling glueing everything together, to completely new frameworks trying to replace React.

Through the eyes of three different engineers we will take a look at what WebAssembly has to offer:

The innovator: who manages to solve a completely new set of problems on the web. The revolutionary: who throws away there codebase and starts fresh, building there website with not a single line of Javascript.The madman: who tries to take things too far, and doesn’t know where to stop.

About the speaker

Yoeri is a young developer at Variant Bergen. From the young age of 11, he has dived into the world of (web) development, finally making it into his study and career. Now 15 years later (and a few dozen frontend frameworks later), he is just as interested as ever in discovering new technologies and creating efficient applications.