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Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
How to Pre-Compile JavaScript Applications
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WebAssembly allows any language to run their top level and then create a new program based on that. It means you can do like lots of computation in the top level scope of your JavaScript program if you wanted to. And all of that's done when you compile your program before you even like deployed it anywhere. Is that a good example of where I might want to use this? It's a fantastic example of pre computing like a big data structure if you're able to, then that's ideal. But yeah, computing a data structure ahead of time is an ideal use case. Beautiful. Well, now we get into Supper club questions - what kind of computer mouse and keyboard do you use
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