The Backend Strikes Back

Vaguely star wars themed, Sequel to “A Node Hype”. Live demo with some background, using rust, cargo, npmjs.com and web pack

Outline:

Quick intro to WebAssembly
Even quicker intro to rust
Example of creating a rust package (crate)
Publishing said crate to npmjs as wasm module
Create a barebones html page in a clean environment (with no rust toolchain)
Install rust crate/webassembly module from npm
Embed the webassembly module in said html page
Show it running, hopefully…
Summary:

Come to the dark side we have performance and powerful types
Examples of some other projects using webassembly for cool things
Potential warnings/drawbacks, no more view source, etc.
If I have time:

Brief sermon about formal reasoning being very powerful
Implications in other areas (webassembly on the server? unikernels?)
Some of my own Prognostication
Potential gags include:

Some sort of language based you killed my father/I am your father joke.
Disappointing prequels (flash, java)
BIG CORPORATE (still a bit disappointing, but better) sequels (asmjs, PNACL)
“I am the Senate/It’s treason then” (reduced democratisation of the web)
Audience Outcomes:

Awareness that WebAssembly exists
Awareness of Rust
Demo that webassembly is already practical, now.
Pun exhaustion
Where we are on the “Birth and Death of Javascript” timeline

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