Web Unleashed 2016

2016-10-03 00:00:00 2016-10-05 00:00:00 America/Toronto Web Unleashed 2016 If you're a front-end developer, or aspire to be one, then you know how quickly the space changes. By attending Web Unleashed, you will get up-to-date on the skills to push you ahead in your career. Toronto FITC Toronto

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What The Heck is WebAssembly, And Do I Have to Learn C Now?

October 4 2016, 12:00 - 12:45pm Room: 803A

Advanced
JavaScript
Web Dev

Overview

JavaScript has always had a special place on the web, until now. Last year, every major browser vendor joined together in forming a W3C Community Group to collaborate on “a new, portable, size and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web”. They called it WebAssembly, and it’s already begun landing in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome. Suddenly, JS isn’t the only game in town: programs will be written in C, compiled to WebAssembly, and run faster than JavaScript ever could. Is this the end? Do we all have to learn C? Come to the talk and find out!

Objective

Prepare web developers for a future in which browsers natively support many languages, not just JavaScript.

Target Audience

JavaScript developers

Assumed Audience Knowledge

Fluency in at least one programming language.

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn

  1. Why browser vendors decided to create an alternative to JavaScript
  2. How WebAssembly differs from JavaScript, Asm.js, Native Client (NaCl), and plugins
  3. What WebAssembly is, and what its roadmap looks like
  4. How to get started with WebAssembly
  5. The impact that WebAssembly will have on web development throughout the next 5 years