Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss all the details around Web Assembly, and the effects of higher education and JavaScript, and JS Standards.

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Featuring:

• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
• Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
• Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

The topics covered in today’s show:

• Web Assembly and higher education with JavaScript, and JS Standards
• Project(s) of the Week: Lesser known JS standards — Abstract Blob Store, Abstract Chunk Store

• Web Assembly is ready.
• What kind of impact will it have on the ecosystem?
• eich-tech-giants-could-botch-webassembly.html">Brendan is worried vendors will mess this up
• Cartoon intro to Web Assembly
• started-with-webassembly-in-node.js.html?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email">Getting Started with Web Assembly in Node.js
• Stanford is Migrating from Java to JavaScript

Project(s) of the Week

• Lesser Known JS Standards
• Abstract Blob Store
• Abstract Chunk Store

Picks

• Mikeal: Offline Camp, JSConf EU, csv,conf, and OpenVis Conf
• Alex: flow-typed
• Rachel: Data Sketches

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