[EN] add WebAssembly #2117
[EN] add WebAssembly #2117
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Signed-off-by: Arun Karthick N M <[email protected]>
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Is it fine? @iamNoah1 |
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Thanks for your contribution, @arunkarthicknm. We are currently working our way through our backlog. This is on our to-do list, but there are a few terms that need to be reviewed before yours. Thanks for your patience! |
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Sure @CathPag |
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Hi @arunkarthicknm
Thank you for the contribution. Before reviewers start to review its content, please check the following comments. :)
Co-authored-by: Seokho Son <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Catherine Paganini <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Seokho Son <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Catherine Paganini <[email protected]>
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| ## What it is | ||
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| WebAssembly (often abbreviated as Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable target for compiling high-level languages like C, C++, Rust, and others, enabling deployment on the web for client-side and server-side applications. | ||
| It is a low-level bytecode format that can be executed in a virtual machine, typically integrated into web browsers. |
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It may be good to mention that Wasm is not just for web applications—it's useful in other spaces too, like IoT, Edge, Cloud, etc. It's a universal runtime, and could probably be used on any platform.
I'd also suggest linking to the virtual machine definition page.
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| ## Problem it addresses | ||
| Traditional web applications are primarily built using JavaScript, which is an interpreted language. | ||
| While JavaScript has improved over the years, it still faces performance limitations when executing computationally intensive tasks. | ||
| With JavaScript, developers often need to rewrite their code to make it work across different platforms and environments. |
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This section focuses a lot on JavaScript, and brings up valid issues, but Wasm is something that works along side it, not necessarily replacing it (and it's not that JavaScript needs to be rewritten, I think it's more that the browser environment is inconsistent). I tend to think of Wasm for performance centric stuff, and JavaScript for more dynamic tasks.
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I wonder about the rewriting bit here -- thinking more on it, one of the things that WASM helps with is not having to rewrite legacy code either -- if you have some old C code that is doing the job, it can potentially be used without rewriting on the web now too.
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I question the accuracy in comparing WASM to javascript at all. I would also remove this.
| This opens up new possibilities and allows developers to reuse existing codebases and libraries. | ||
| Also, WebAssembly modules can run consistently across different browsers, operating systems, and devices, reducing the need for platform-specific code. | ||
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| Overall, WebAssembly addresses performance limitations, language restrictions, code portability, security concerns, code size, and loading time issues, providing a more robust and flexible environment for web application development. |
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Since we mention security here, it might be worth noting that WebAssembly has a sandboxed execution environment, meaning it isolates the WebAssembly program from the system it's running on, which can provide some protection against malicious code. This may not be the best place to bring it up since it's the concluding paragraph though.
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Hi @arunkarthicknm, it's been a couple of weeks since we've seen any activity on this PR, and I wanted to check-in. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or need further clarification on any of the points I've raised. We're here to help. |
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Agreed with @nate-double-u on the suggested changes. If no objections I'll noodle on some recommended wording for the content. |
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No objections, please noodle 🙂 |
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What is the status here? @nate-double-u |
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@hlipsig, you were working on a review, but had some questions around how best to provide the feedback. Did we land on a best practice? |
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@nate-double-u @hlipsig my suggestion would be to add suggestions via the suggestion feature so that they can easily be added (committed) through the web ui. And also as the author is not responsive anymore we should just go on and make the suggested changes ourselves. What you think @nate-double-u, wanna take over? Or @arunkarthicknm wants to follow up? |
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I'm happy to take it over. @hlipsig, I'm also happy to work with you to get your suggestions in, I'd hate for you to have done work that didn't get considered 🙂 |
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| ## Problem it addresses | ||
| Traditional web applications are primarily built using JavaScript, which is an interpreted language. | ||
| While JavaScript has improved over the years, it still faces performance limitations when executing computationally intensive tasks. | ||
| With JavaScript, developers often need to rewrite their code to make it work across different platforms and environments. |
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I question the accuracy in comparing WASM to javascript at all. I would also remove this.
Co-authored-by: Hilliary Lipsig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Noah Ispas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hilliary Lipsig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Noah Ispas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hilliary Lipsig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Noah Ispas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nate W <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nate W <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nate W <[email protected]>
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/lgtm
Thanks for your patience @arunkarthicknm, and to all the reviewers!
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| status: Feedback Appreciated | |||
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| status: Completed |
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Thanks for this great work! Let me update the tag to make the term live.
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Signed-off-by: Seokho Son <[email protected]>
This resolves #1942
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